Descartes’ first meditation is the preliminary answer in reply to the skeptic view point. Descartes uses doubt in order to respond to skepticism and in turn uses the thinking against itself. He begins by examining the three principle ways of how knowledge is gained; senses, reality and mathematics. In all three examinations Descartes builds a foundation for each argument and then discredits them through the method of doubt.
Descartes begins with examining the senses, for they are the principle means of knowledge reception. Everything is gathered through these five senses. Ever
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