Passage from descartes first meditation

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Construct an argument in support of this passage from Descartes’ First Meditation: "Whatever I have accepted until now as most true has come to me through my senses. But occasionally I have found that they have deceived me, and it is unwise to trust completely those who have deceived us even once" (Truth 226).

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