Re: Descartes and Certainty
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Not sure what I'm, missing here. Hold a loaded .45 caliber pistol, with the safety off, to your knee. Pull the trigger and discuss with me the possibility that the bullet is a figment of your imagination.
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This is sort of a good, pragmatic argument... but Descartes would probably argue that the bullet, your knee, and the pain you feel from the bullet hitting your knee is your "imagination."
To put it more clearly, it wouldn't make much sense to argue Descartes ideas on existentialism/and/or certainty of reality by addressing physical pain, as physical pain is a manifestation of the mind at best and at worst perceived by the mind.
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