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Descartes method of doubt is his personal quest for certainty in knowledge, a system that allows us to find a way to be assured that what we feel we “know” is not just a figment of his imagination but an infallible truth. The motivation for his method of doubts begins as a question of the possibility that all his thoughts could be false on the basis that he has had many false beliefs before and could possibly have formed more false beliefs with a fabricated base, and that in order to have stable sciences we must be free from doubt. In order to start afresh Descartes must demolish his any thought for which he could have doubt, leaving nothing but one simple truth. John Hospers makes an argument against this skepticism with the foundation that we must find some way to reasonably evaluate true from false.
Descartes method of doubt focuses on becoming a skeptic of every thought in which he employs any doubt. His method for doubting follows as such, firstly that he will regard any......

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