Multiple Choice
In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes
A) decided to put aside all pre-existing doctrine and to only accept a claim once he had shown that it was certainly true.
B) compared himself to a builder constructing a new building from scratch.
C) wanted to find truths of which he could be certain.
D) All of the above
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