Descartes now realizes that he clearly and distinctly understood the truths of mathematics and geometry, and only doubted them because he was assuming that there was an evil demon deceiving him. He then concludes that if he is to know that these things are true (indeed, whether he can know anything beyond his existence as a thinking thing), then he must find out whether there really is an evil demon deceiving him.
Descartes now realizes that he clearly and distinctly understood the truths of mathematics and geometry, and only doubted them because he was assuming that there was an evil demon deceiving him. He then concludes that if he is to know that these things are true (indeed, whether he can know anything beyond his existence as a thinking thing), then he must find out whether there really is an evil demon deceiving him.
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