Do the arguments of the First Meditation raise serious doubts about what we can know? The purpose of Descartes' Meditations is not to raise doubt about what can be known, but to eradicate doubt and arrive at a definite answer about what one can be certain about, indeed this is the aim of all ep...

Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...