Descartes's argument to show that his knowledge extends beyond his own existence depends upon the claim that whatever he perceives "clearly and distinctly" is true.
That is distinctly less true of those graduating from less selective schools.
At the beginning of the Third Meditation, Descartes declares "I now seem to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (7 35).
In addition to thinking that there are some truths that are impervious to doubt, Malebranche also has a different understanding of Descartes' principle that whatever one clearly and distinctly is true.
He tentatively formulates the following candidate for a criterion of truth: "I now seem [videor] to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (Med. 3, AT 7 35).
Measured against the Court's discussion in Jackson Transit about when a claim arises under federal law, Empire's contract-derived claim for reimbursement is not a "creatur[e] of federal law". Id., at 23. True, distinctly federal interests are involved.
Whatever I perceive clearly and distinctly is guaranteed true, because I am the creature of an all-perfect God.
As Descartes tells us: "In the Fourth Meditation it is proved that everything that we clearly and distinctly perceive is true" (Synopsis, AT 7 15).
Descartes holds that whatever we clearly and distinctly perceive is true and that truth is "the conformity of thought with its object" ("To Mersenne, 16 October 1639," AT 2 597, CSMK 139).
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