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Essay / Descartes' systematic approach to discovering the truth
By continually observing each new answer found and revising it and all previous ones, this will then prove that the truths found are infallible. Through this enumeration process, each part is double-checked and no errors are made; and thus the intact truth is obtained. Having proven that these methods work, Descartes will then use them to answer his initial question. Proving that he was a real thing capable of thinking, he would then deduce that a God exists. By understanding that it is a thinking thing, and that this thinking thing in itself is perceived as the soul; is imperfect. It is imperfect because he doubted his sense perception. He initially stated that because his senses are deceptive, then they are false; but by understanding: "to think, one must exist, I judged that I could take as a general rule that the things that we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are all true, but that there is only some difficulty in correctly discerning ยป (Descartes