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Reading this after Descartes meditations, it’s so much more British. Descartes like we can be certain that God is real because we can imagine an infinite all-powerful all-present essence beyond physicality that we cannot perceive through the senses. So God must’ve given us these insensible ideas. Hume’s just like nah. You can perceive power. You can perceive being. Then you just extrapolate them. Obviously mate

Read the meditations. Now reading Hume’s responding text, then will read the ‘other metaphysical works’

So far: Interesting ideas, Descartes sitting down to question everything he thinks he knows. He states that very little can be falsifiable. Things you think are certain like the fact that you have hands, you are a human, or that what is happening around you is real. It could be a mirage. It could be fake. It could be a dream. Meditation 2 reacting the conclusion on what can be certain, I am a thinking thing.