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1 What arguments does Descartes use to cast doubt on his previous beliefs? Is he right to claim that the proposition ‘I exist’ has a special kind of certainty?

2 What is the purpose of Descartes’s casting doubt on all of his beliefs? What is the ultimate aim behind the method of doubt?

3 We can conceive that a malicious demon has us ensnared to falsely believe that there is an external world around us. Does conceivability show that such a global illusion is indeed possible?