I Did Not Imitate The Skeptics Who

On The One Hand I Have A Clear And Distinct Idea Of Myself, In So Far As I Am A Thinking, Non-extended Thing; And On The Other Hand I Have A Distinct Idea Of Body, In So Far A This Is Simply An Extended, Non-thinking Thing. And, Accordingly, It Is Certain That I Am Really Distinct From My Body, And Exist Without It.

This Result Could Have Been Achieved Either By His [god] Endowing My Intellect With A Clear And Distinct Perception Of Everything About Which I Would Ever Deliberate, Or Simply By Impressing The Following Rule So Firmly Upon My Memory That I Could Never Forget It: I Should Never Judge Anything That I Do Not Clearly And Distinctly Understand.

How Do We Know That Anything Really Exists, That Anything Is Really The Way It Seems Ot Us Through Our Senses?

The Two Operations Of Our Understanding, Intuition And Deduction, On Which Alone We Have Said We Must Rely In The Acquisition Of Knowledge.

In The Matter Of A Difficult Question It Is More Likely That The Truth Should Have Been Discovered By The Few Than By The Many.