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Descartes has, in the first meditation, brought everything to a decisive doubtfulness. Everything is to be doubt from the fundamentals if anything true and indubitable is to be established. He has two objectives to accomplish: theontology, the study of God's existence, and soul-body problem (mind-body). The fundamental epistemical acquisition is the sense. He doubts it, he establishes his method.