Descartes denies his senses and his body, since senses have many times proven to make one feel or see something that is not there. For instance, Descartes gives an explanation of how his sense perceptions have convinced him, through dreams, that he was comfortably sitting by the fire, when he was actually lying asleep in bed. Everything his senses …show more content…
I can see that Descartes argues that the existence of his own mind is the foundation on which he can build further knowledge, because he thinks that the existence of his own mind is the only thing that is absolutely certain. However, I do not believe this, and I argue that there is a possibility that there are other indubitable things that exist in the world that Descartes has not yet discovered, therefore, limiting him to the thought of the existence of his mind being the only foundation of which he could build knowledge