... race and skew their sensory perception. In everything Descartes goes through, it is clear that he uses a methodological and rational way of doubting the things that he does not know if he truly believes. He provides significant reasons as to why he doubts each ... then by the end of the book Descartes can truly see that some of his skepticism was not in fact rational, and so he says that "the hyperbolic doubts of the last few days ought to be rejected as ludicrous" (Meditations 89; pg. 58). William of Ockham once said "do not ... multiply entities without good and sufficient reason". In...

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