descartes

What do you think?

He got convicted of rape by a jury of his peers. Why is this even a question?

Now, anon, that's a different question from how he was wrong.

Why he was wrong probably has something to do with

1. He was the pioneer of a new method.
2. He may not have been perfectly precise in his thinking.
3. His Catholicism lead him to weird places.

>>1450286
>Being a criminal automatically makes your philosophical ideas irrelevant

>>1450290
>le how and why

undergrad detected

>>1450297
>actually using precise definitions is pleb

>>1450303
well the wrongness of the argument would be "because" of one his premises, so "how" he was wrong would be a validity problem, "why" would be a cogency problem, it's kind of useless to distinguish here. to say "why" he was wrong is to say that one of the premises is invalid, to say "how" it is wrong is to say how that premise doesn't reflect reality or whatever.

how/why distinction is not interesting here, I think