What_Exists__Descartes,_Berkeley,_And_Russell

What Exists: Descartes, Berkeley, And Russell Descartes, Berkeley, and Russell The world is a dubious place, but there are a few things that are fairly certain. Many philosophers over the ages have tried to study what is “real”, and what we cannot rely on. Why do we think the way we do' Is there an outside force, God, who is the holder of these ideas or is it in our own minds' Are material substances around us, and continue to be there when we are not in the room' Or are there not really any material substances' Does something need to be material to be real' What do we really know' We are going to discuss the answers to these questions that were presented to us by such great philosophers as Descartes, Berkeley, and Russell. Most of all how did these philosophers come to the conclusions they did and why' Rene Descartes, in his first meditation, tells us that everything in this world is dubious and that we cannot rely on our senses/perceptions. “All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the descartes, berkeley, russell, things, god, ideas, material, cat, prove, existence, because, must, mind, exist, dubious, world, view, very, substances, reality, certain, cannot, table, room, really, real, nothing, meditation, great, different, deceiver, come, way, time, therefore