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Descartes Third Meditation

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In the Third Meditation , Descartes raises one of the celebrated problems regarding knowledge and the existence of God. It all begins in Meditation I, where Descartes introduces questions that arise from skepticism in an attempt to find a foundation of knowledge that holds certainty. Descartes begins by placing into question the reliability of one’s sensory perception. Then, Descartes proceeds to open the possibility that reality is in fact captured in a dream (i.e. the dreaming argument). After failed attempts, Descartes only found that sensory perception is not reliable. Moreover, Descartes proceeds to take into consideration the intellect as a reliable source of knowledge. However, the skeptic raises the possibility of the existence of
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