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Descartes' Meditation One         Being a foundationalist, Descartes needs to destroy the foundations of his beliefs so that in his Meditations he will be able to build upon new foundations of undeniable and self evident truths. In order to do this Descartes must first find a valid argument that will allow him to doubt his foundation beliefs and in turn doubt what is considered to be reality. He begins by first noting that one can not …

…mislead a person into thinking for instance, that a triangle has four sides or some other false belief, there is no realm of perception that is not touched by the argument. The Evil Genius argument allows Descartes to logically distrust and doubt a priori and a posterior knowledge. This argument completes Descartes' mission for a logical argument that will allow him to doubt everything, and start from the bottom of the hierarchy of his beliefs.