Rene Descartes constructed an method of doubt to be certain about knowledge which was to throw out everything that he knew. Descartes used doubting to know the truth to gain certainty of knowledge .In his first meditation that Descartes talks about is that our senses are able to deceive us. Descartes portrays our senses as an perceptual illusion. Descartes use skepticism which is a theory in epistemology which holds which says it is impossible for the human mind to know anything for sure. For an example, rather than believing that a person is bad, someone can believe that a person is trusted.
Epistemology which is knowledge, is the study of how a person obtains knowledge and how they asses and learns from that knowledge. Knowledge asks us, “how are suppose to know what we know?”.
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Since Descartes states that sense experience is deceiving, Descartes supported the fact how our senses can be deceiving at a certain point. In the “Allegory of the Cave”, Plato recommend that there is a reality outside of what humans experience. In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato tried to find some kind of similarities with the human experience to the caveman. In the story, the caveman can only see that shadows are all there is reality. It is evident that there is a reality outside of that. There’s definitely a whole world out there, but the prisoners see’s the shadows on the wall which they might not even realize that the outside world exists. The Allegory of the Cave portrays that it really doesn't matter how precise our senses can determine the shadows on the wall but there is a reality outside of what our senses can perceive. you have all sorts of sensory experiences. You feel, hear, see things, and these experiences are put ideas into your head. Then your head relates and assembles your ideas and then it appears to you as if you have knowledge of outside things, like causes, and