Descartes and Meditations on Philosophy

he method continues in meditation two. Descartes wants to again put "aside everything that admits of the least doubt, as if I had discovered it completely false" (Descartes 17). He thinks by doing this it will allow him to find something certain, just one thing, or if he can't do this he says, he will be able to conclude that "nothing is certain" (Descartes 17). The only way Descartes thinks he will be able to find something certain, is by believing everything he senses is false. Once he has found this certain thing, it can then become a building block for other ideas. Descartes knows what he wants as an end product (find something certain); he just has to find a logical way to do this, so that the reader can interpret him correctly. First, Descartes starts out by questioning himself he says, "I have persuaded myself that
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