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          Beginning of paper How does Descartes try to extricate himself from the sceptical 
doubts that he has raised? Does he succeed? 
by Tom Nuttall 
[All page references and quotations from the Meditations are 
 taken from the 1995 Everyman edition] 
  
 In the Meditations, Descartes embarks upon what Bernard Williams 
 has called the project of 'Pure Enquiry' to discove ....
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 .... there is never a reason to 
 believe p that is better than a reason not to believe p, we 
 should forget about trying to discover the nature of reality and 
 live by appearance alone. This attitude was best exemplified in 
 the work of Michel de Montaigne, who mockingly dismissed the 
 attempts of theologians and scientists to understand the natur....
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