... it is totally unlike what you believe it to be? Descartes" Answer: Decartes would entertain the possibility of solipsism. That is the whole basis for his Meditations, to doubt what he has always believed in order to attempt to prove them to be true. He sets aside his previous beliefs in the external material ... world until he can discover grounds to believe in them. He does not rely on his senses to prove an outside world because the senses sometimes deceive us. "It is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once ... If I did believe in solipsism, then I would...

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