... must find some proof to what he already knows or some reasoning in general for why things are the way they are. Descartes first attack is on the human senses and how they are deceiving. He moves deeper and beyond sense immediately and the idea of "setting". "I am sitting here next to the fire, wearing my winter dressing gown, that I am holding this sheet of paper in my hands...But on what grounds could one deny that these hands and this entire body are mine?"(351). This method of thinking shows that Descartes is looking to a higher power in which to derive why what he can see, feel, and understand is real or simply imagination. He next enters into conversation about the reality of dreams. He describes how he can watch his hands move and he can read while he is awake and in response says, "Such things would ...

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