Question

1. Descartes says, “Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those I had subsequently built upon them” (I.17). Why does he believe these youthful ideas and opinions to be false?

1. Youth tend to be trusting in their knowledge of the world since they have not developed the critical capacity for analyzing and testing knowledge.
2. He knows that his parents and teachers deceived him, since they were trying to protect him from the harsh realities of the world.
3. His ideas and opinions formed in youth were the result of his spontaneous and natural impulse to believe in the reality of sense perceptions.
4. It wasn’t until he was twenty-three years old that he discovered that Santa Claus wasn’t real, and that just shattered his worl
5. His early opinions and ideas were not grounded in mathematical and logical certainty.
6. a, c and e
7. b, d and e
8. all of the above

Answer 1

F. a,c,e seems to be the right options as when we consider the option for santa claus being discovered by descrates in his twenties then this doesn't seem to be the truth.

He did used the example of santa claus explaining that strangers or other children are mistaken with thier childish belief that santa is real but in reality it does not.