As a young kid, you’re told many different things that you believe to be true. You have no reason to think that people would deceive you by telling you things that aren’t really accurate. As you grow older, you continue to base all of your opinions in life on the beliefs that you are taught as a kid. But, it is very possible that all of the things that you are taught as a kid could be false, and maybe, you don’t actually know anything. That’s what Descartes began to question. What if everything we believe to be true, is really false? What if we are living an illusion? Descartes began to doubt everything in his life because he wanted to discover what truths would be stable when he completely cleared his mind of everything that he had been
