This meditation begins with the narrator reflecting on his past and realizing that he has a built up and accepted many falsehoods and he decides to sweep the slate clean and look at everything with new opinions and build on his knowledge from new foundations. From the narrator’s perspective, our senses are known to deceive us and that we must never completely trust something that has deceived us. At the end of his first meditation, Descartes believes that he has successfully shown that every conclusion we form or thing that we think we know can have at least one doubt that one may argue. In proving this, he finds doubt in things that we all perceive to be undoubtedly true. The first thing we all believe to know without a doubt is when we are
