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Essay heading: Descartes And How He Tried To Remove Himself From His Skeptical Point
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Descartes felt the force of skeptical arguments and, while not being skeptically disposed himself, came to believe that skepticism towards knowledge was the best way to discover what is certain: "by applying skeptical doubt to all our beliefs, we can discover which of them are indubitable, and thus form an adequate foundation for knowledge...
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Descartes felt the force of skeptical arguments and, while not being skeptically disposed himself, came to believe that skepticism towards knowledge was the best way to discover what is certain: "by applying skeptical doubt to all our beliefs, we can discover which of them are indubitable, and thus form an adequate foundation for knowledge...
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