Descarte 2

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introduced the famous Latin phrase “cogito ergo sum”, which means “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes then argued that “cogito ergo sum” has passed the test for “method of doubt ” because he can not be mistaken in his beliefs about the way things seem to him. Descartes held that by means of reason alone, certain universal, self-evident truths could be discovered, from which the remaining content of philosophy and the sciences could be deductively derived. Descartes therefore believed that his knowledge exist.
Descartes then tried to prove the existence of God which will help him in proving knowledge. He thought that the representative power that a finite thinking object has in creating mental pictures of things that is more perfect than itself cannot come from itself; it must somehow be derived from something at least as perfect as the objects represented by the thinking thing. It follows that the representative capacity that finite thinking substances, like ourselves, have ...

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