This is most likely because in Meditations, Descartes does not give answers, but leads others to finding the answer that best suits the individual. First of all, Descartes must establish how people know what they know and that man knows he does indeed exist. In this book, he surmises “cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I exist)...
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In this book, he surmises “cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I exist). The presence of the thinking mind gives understanding to the existence of the physical body. The mind can know itself better than it can know the body, and it has ties to reality through other means besides perception from the senses...
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