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How Does Descartes Reflect On The Evidence Of My Existence

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Descartes drew out and expressed in philosophical terms the experimental consequences of this new cosmological context starting from a position of fundamental doubt. The one that is expressed in his famous statement “COGITO ERGO SUM (I think, therefore I am).” This statement is a product of his pure reasoning, he started doubting everything that was not clear and evident to his reason, therefore he concluded that the only thing he could not doubt was his own existence. If I’m thinking right now, that provides me the evidence of my existence, if I exist as a combination of body and mind therefore I am. In others words, the proof that I exist is my own thinking.

Descartes relied on our reason as the principal source of genuine knowledge, using
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