/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 04, 2019

Have to complete a quiz...

Descartes' Meditator believes that only someone who is insane would stop trusting their senses just because they were deceived by them once. True or false?

I don't really know how to approach this, since it is shown that we cannot trust our senses absolutely ("it is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive, and it is wiser not to trust entirely to anything by which we have once been deceived"), but the Meditator then mentions that only insane people would COMPLETELY reject any validity of the senses. We get into more convoluted stuff after that, but in the context of this question, what answer would be wanted?

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