Explain descartes critical application of method of doubt

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In the Meditations, Descartes makes a clean sweep of his beliefs and begins again. Explain Descartes' critical application of his method of doubt and the way he builds knowledge on a new foundation. Can Descartes' rationalist account of knowledge of external objects withstand the criticisms of the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley and Hume? In the end, which epistemological account is more plausible, Descartes' rationalism or the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, or Hume? Provide an argument in support of your conclusion.

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