In the reading selection from Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes says there are many sense experiences “as to which we cannot reasonably have any doubt. . . . For example, there is the fact that I am here, seated by the fire.” Concerning these vivid sense experiences, Descartes says that
a. it is foolish to doubt them.
b. I can’t have total certainty about them because I could be dreaming.
c. it doesn’t matter if my experiences are true or not, as long as they are pleasant.
d. since I have five senses, they all couldn’t be wrong.
b.
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A) Creation B) Tower of Babel C) Exodus D) Flood E) Exile
Who emerged as the leader of the reform movement in the sixteenth century? ___________
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).