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Critically Discuss Descartes' Method of Doubt Descartes' Method of Doubt is to doubt everything that can be coherently doubted to achieve truth and foundational beliefs. Descartes sets about doubting his beliefs because he believes that nothing indubitable can be built upon something dubitable, i.e., if his foundational beliefs are wrong then the whole structure of belief can be doubted. Descartes decides that he will overturn all his beliefs in order to separate the true from the false, he describes it as a 'general overturning of my beliefs' and decides to keep only absolute beliefs. Descartes says in the first meditation that "because undermining the foundations (of belief) will cause whatever that has been built upon them to fall down of its own accord- I will at once attack those principles which supported everything I once believed". This is Descartes' first huge mistake, he does not specify what his absolute beliefs are,...

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