Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes and David Hume are well known philosophers of the time. These three men were after the truth. The truth about life. The truth about how one exists. The truth about the world around them. They questioned, thought, and reasoned. This is what they did. There goal was to arrive at true and certain knowledge.         Descartes and Hobbes were both rationalists. They did not trust their senses. Senses deceive and cover up …showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…base everything on experience. Science has some weight in this, for example, going back to Mathematics. Hume would have to experience one plus one equals two to believe it? That is just a little insane. Experience does help, in many cases, but it cannot apply to all. Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and David Hume all have excellent ideas. Combining them all together would create an awesome way of reasoning and gaining truth and certain knowledge.