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This 4 page paper examines Rene Descartes and his views on knowledge. The cogito is discussed. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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should understand that the real question is why does he do such a thing? After all, if someone is skeptical, it would seem that nothing could be proven. This is
particularly puzzling because Descartes is an individual who could not even prove his own existence. Yet, it seems that his solution, in the cogito, grounds this philosopher a bit. Also,
it appears to be a fact that, not unlike the Socratic method, asking questions gets to the truth. People see this in the Supreme Court today. In order to comprehend
truth, judges ask the attorneys questions. From the answers a decision is rendered. In order to arrive at a conclusion, it is healthy to be skeptical and question everything. The
Cartesian Cogito, or the premise "I think. Therefore I am," to some extent dissolves skepticism. At the same time, anyone who contemplates the statement in all its meaning may still
be skeptical about existence. Descartes and his supporters firmly believed that the cogito does resolve skepticism. His statement "I think, therefore I am," is not just an
inference about the activity of thinking in respect to the existence of something else which performs an activity ("Descartes: Starting," 2003). Rather, it is thought to be an intuition in
respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of first-person experience, the logical self-certification of self-conscious awareness in any form" (2003). By suggesting
that this is possible and that one can know they are thinking and that this proves existence is sufficient to relieve all doubt, at least according to Descartes. To
Descartes, skepticism is defeated ("Descartes: Starting," 2003). What is believed is that even though there can be challenges to skepticism, there is one part of human knowledge that can never
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