Originally Posted by
angrysoba
The point of the methodological doubt was to discover what kind of knowledge was incorrigible. Given that most kinds of knowledge could be doubted, what was there that couldn't be doubted? Rene Descartes thought that the cogito was one example of that. He is sometimes accredited with having begun modern epistemology and skepticism which I would have thought was a Good Thing, no?
Meh. Skepticism existed before Descartes and would have existed even if he hadn't made his statements. You don't have to be a deep thinker to realize that you shouldn't believe things without evidence. I don't think it requires a
reductio ad absurdum to figure that out.