Unlike earlier great thinkers, Rene Descartes was the first to view psychology as a form of science in its own way. Dissatisfied with what he was taught in school, he took a particular interest in studying psychology and its similarity to scientific principles. ... Descartes incorporated the use of mathematic-like certainty principles in the determination of psychological solutions. ... The third rule involved proceeding step by step in solving psychological questions which was a big contrast to the conventional methods that existed then in making decisions by conducting few observations. ... ...

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Descartes" role of the first meditation is to doubt many things. ... He questions the concepts of how does one really know if he is dreaming or if he is awake. ... Descartes discards the senses as a reliable source of truth and as an indicator of an object's existence. ... There are still some necessary truths which remain the same both dreaming and waking, and it is these that Descartes shall attempt to uncover. ... While we can doubt studies based on composite things, like medicine, astronomy, or physics, he concludes that we cannot doubt studies based on simple things, like arithmet...

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