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René Descartes, author of "Meditation 1", writes how he must erase everything he
had ever learned and thought to be true and must "begin again from the first foundations"
(222). One may ask how Descartes came to this conclusion. The answer is that of he
"realized how many were the false opinions that in [his] youth [he] took to be true, and
thus how doubtful were all the things that [he] subsequently built upon these opinions"
(222). This change was to take place at the perfect time in Descartes life however, he
wasted much time waiting for that moment Descartes decided to simply let go of it. He
started questioning everything he ever believed in. Descartes raised one specific question:
How does one justify being awake from dreaming? He gives an example stating "that I
am here, clothed in my dressing gown, seated at the fireplace, when in fact I am lying
undressed between he blankets!" (222). Descartes describes how a dream may feel so
real, one might actually......

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