Descartes

Descartes Descartes Proving our existence has been something philosophers have tried to grasp for quite some time. Rene Descartes sets about proving our existence as well as many others. He first determines that many of his beliefs and opinions are doubtful. He proposes that the quest for knowledge is based entirely too much on unproved presuppositions. He argues that this makes it difficult to distinguish between truth and error, since we cannot recognize true knowledge. Descartes decides that in order to find out the truth, he must disprove the principles that support everything he believes in, using his Method of Doubt. This Method of Doubt is his way of doubting everything that has even the slightest possibility of not being fact. Descartes establishes that his senses have been wrong, and therefore, he cannot trust them. He believes that when we look at this approach to our existence we must deny that any sensory data that we receive is believable or it is conceivable that it is false. This means that we cannot really know that anything we perceive through our senses is actually an accurate interpretation of reality. After we have established existence, god, descartes, thinking, senses, everything, argument, using, things, prove, must, know, fact, doubt, believes, without, therefore, proving, method, cogito, cannot, being, been, while, whether, way, truth, true, tried, thought, thing, seems, really, proof, principles