He trusted that god made his mind

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Question: Descartes in "Discourse on Method (Part IV)" wanted to find out what he could be sure of. He doubted everything he could, even his own body and the world around him. He realized that he could not doubt that he was thinking, because doubting is a kind of thinking. He decided that his mind was the only thing he knew for sure, and that it was different from his body and the physical world. He also believed that he had an idea of God in his mind, and that this idea could not come from himself, but from God. He thought that God was real and good, and that he would not lie to him or trick him. He trusted that God made his mind able to understand some things clearly and correctly, such as math and geometry. He also thought that God made the physical world, and that he could know some things about it by using his mind. He separated his mind from the physical world, and said that they could only affect each other by God's power.

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