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Methodological doubt withholds assent to test what can withstand a challenge. Descartes uses it to seek a foundation, giving suspension a different purpose from Sextus’s inquiry.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 48
How far can doubt take us?
Descartes moves from deliberate doubt to the certainty that he is thinking, a starting point the lesson keeps apart from his further claims about mind and body.