Comparing Descartes And Doubt

Descartes thought that he needed to subject everything he believed to the slightest possible doubt in order for him to find that one thing he could be definite of and that would therefore be revealed as something solid and certain. Descartes also noted that everything he believed has been acquired from the senses or by means of the senses but has learned that it is deceiving. He supposes then that however things can be felt, tasted, seen, smelled, heard or in short sensed, there is always a slight but nonetheless real possibility that they are all illusory. In addition, Descartes thought that maybe a powerful being is controlling his mind into thinking this way. If this is true, then what remains true then? Perhaps according to him, that nothing
However, this doubt will have to be instigated only until such time when he has discovered the indubitable – that which he could never ever doubt. It is doubt that implements thought and it is just like saying, “I doubt”. Once you think of something, it is just fine to have a thought or idea in our head, however, thinking would be in its utmost if we put our ideas into question and that only happens in doubt. For example, when you think of a chocolate, that is a thought. But what is critical about that? What is the experience that will make you get the vibe that you’re thinking? Well there must be something more in order to intensify thought and that is only possible when we question
In methodologically doubting his own existence, Descartes is thinking, and in thinking he demonstrates his own existence. Descartes essential point is that, in thinking and in asserting that he is thinking, he is demonstrating his own existence. It seems then that he has found his absolute starting point: a sample of indubitable truth. Assertion of his own existence while he is thinking is absolutely incorrigible; he cannot be wrong because to think is to exist. Therefore, Descartes claims that he is a thing that thinks: that he exists as a thinking thing. Thus, the mechanics of the establishment of the existence of a thinking thing, of a doubting mind, of an asserting being, turn on Descartes’s understanding of thought as a property of something that is substantial. Hence, once you doubt and you think, there ought to be a self and that the indubitable ought to be doubt