The Criteria of Truth Offered by Descartes in the Second

question 72

Multiple Choice

The criteria of truth offered by Descartes in the second Meditation are:

• A) certainty and reliability.
• B) clearness and distinctness.
• C) skepticism and solipsism.
• D) rationalism and empiricism.
• E) reason and sense perception.

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