Descartes' lasting template

You could say that the musings scribed to paper by Descartes in the 17th century created a new and (atleast in that moment) superior theory of achieving genuine truth. His picturesque description of the origin of knowledge and what is knowable (tree of knowledge with roots, a trunk, and branches producing fruit available to be plucked by rational observers and actors) imprinted a technique in establishing a means and method in attaining what can be known, or experienced, about the exterior world. It is best to argue that his writings and ideas expressed throughout his meditations established (most likely with the help of other individuals, organizations, and systems that offered him legitimacy and support) the modern truth-finding methodology. The only realizations and idealization experienced within an individual must filter through a process of logical reduction based on our intellectual faculty of doubt, so that anything remaining after this process of doubting is not-doubtable , or indubitable. A thought or concept that resists all penetration of doubt can therefore be recognized as true, or real. This methodology established the sciences we're all so familiar with and brought us into "modern" postures of thinking. With it, modern and indubitable ways of organizing human individual and group activity also emerged (Schools of economics, rightly guided systems of political organization, etc).

Therefore, theories belonging to any branch of knowledge promulgated in our age stem from this inevitable template of methodology. When forming an active opinion around a matter or issue that begs elaborations or investigation belonging to our system of discourse, our process for discovering/ inventing the answer will adapt and absorb the technique of examination momentously outlined by our father of modernity, Rene Descartes.

With this in mind, people such as Pinker and witnesses or observers of bloody Theresa can understand and analyze phenomena through a similar vein of understanding what lies within reality. These two cases are good examples because at first glance they seem to represent two differing systems of intellectual understanding. Empirical realism vs. faith-based miracles. However, Descartes offers his followers (i.e. everyone) a rational explanation for both perspectives. Remember that Descartes obligated a full meditation to the existence of God, and he did so using the same language of logic that he utilizes in highlighting the benefits of empirical analysis and the importance of doubt. The fruit of knowledge that we can taste from the tree is made possible first and foremost from the roots; but where is the origin of the roots?