revery doubtful and uncertain, nevertheless, fromthe fact alone that God is not a deceiver, and hasconsequently permitted no falsity in myopinions...(Descartes 158)Descartes now knows for certain that he has a body. Descartes realizes that, “...I have a body, which is illdisposed when I feel pain, which needs to eat and drink whenI have feelings of hunger or thirst etc.”(Descartes 159). Because of these feeling that Descartes has and because Godis not an evil deceiver than Descartes is indeed lodged in abody and is an entire entity with it.Descartes finally analyzes his third doubt. He now hasthe ability to distinguish between being awake and dreaming. When we are awake, Descartes states, are mind flows in anuninterrupted, continuous sequence. When we are dreaming,our mind does not flow in a consistent, and undisturbedsequence. When a person has a break in the consistency ofevents, they are dreaming....when I perceive things which I clearly knowboth the place they come from and that in whichthey are, and the time at which they appear to me,and when, without any interruption, I can link theperception I have of them with the whole of therest of my life, I am fully assured that it is notin sleep that I am perceiving them but while I amawake(Descartes 168)After establishing certainty to his doubts, Descartesstates, “And I must reject all the doubts of the last fewdays as hyperbolic and ridiculous, particularly the generaluncertainty about sleep, which I could not distinguish for awakeful state...”(Descartes 168). With that Descartesconcludes his meditations and uncertainties.Although Descartes makes a sound argument there weresome people that disagreed with his theories. One of thosepeople was John Locke. The beliefs of Locke, who was anempiricists, were similar to those of the Sophist during thetime of Socrates. He argued that when a person was borntheir mind was empty. A person obtained knowledge throughexpe...
