Question

Decart

Accepted Answer

You can understand things from reason alone. No sensory input, no imagination, etc.

• He was a rationalist.

• Humans have context and we’re great at figuring things out using this context. We don’t need as much sensory input

• Reason vs. experience

• Greeks believed you could be fooled by sensory input

• The whole premise is that by today’s view you would question it but you couldn’t at his time

Sensory Things Reason Input Decart Understand Input Imagination