St. Thomas Aquinas

1 and 1/2 pages a. critically evaluate Thomas argument from necessity in the terms of validity and soundness. how does it turn on the validity of the Aristotelian princle of ' no infinate Regress'?

Descartes: refutation of skepticsm

Why does Descartes write this statement: "i, first of all philosopher, refute skepticism"?

Locke: On knowledge

How does Locke differentiate between knowledge of substance and general ideas? In particular, why does he think that knowledge of nature, like Newtonian physics, is really belief, while mathematics and "morals" (Locke's term for ethics and politics) is where he thinks we can attain knowledge?

Descartes: refutation of skepticsm

Why does Descartes think that to philosophize is to refute skepticism"? The short answer is that Descartes thinks knowledge is possible. Skepticism denies that knowledge is possible. Descartes' methodical doubt in the Meditations, is a method or a means by which he gains certainty, not the conclusion of his inquiry.

Descartes Meditation 2 the wax example

what is the difference between the epistemological arguements that descartes is making with the wax arguement/axiom and the metaphysical arguements I really cannot distinguish between the two when it comes to descartes I also do not really understand what parts of the cogit in meditation 2 are epistemological vs. metaphysical can you please eplain