Descartes does overcome the problem of skepticism in the “cogito”. In Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy he denied everything he knew. He overcame skepticism by enduring it all the way to the end. This allowed him to come to a certain truth. Descartes questioned the truth of his own existence. Then concluded that if he is deceived then something must exist to be deceived and that the deceived is a “thinking thing” (Descartes L325). This conclusion was made through the evidence given by his process of methodical doubt and the help of skepticism. Thus this thing is a thinking thing that doubts. It exists because it thinks. The existence of a body cannot be proven but the thinking thing or “cogito” (Descartes L325) can be proven. This
