... acknowledges that he doesn't destabilize his beliefs very successfully as it seems that he is sat by the fire holding, a piece of paper and contemplating philosophically. How could his senses be deceiving him about these entire things? Descartes goes on to discover we cannot distinguish between dreaming and 'real life' which leads him to doubt his existence in this world, for how do we know that we are not dreaming all the time? This is his second wave of doubt. He then rebukes this idea by pointing out that when we are dreaming we see familiar object, like copies of those which exist in the external world. Therefore we know we cannot be dreaming all the time otherwise where would the duplicated ideas come from? Similarly to when a painter paints an imaginary picture he creates the inspiration from the real world and when something new is created the ...

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