Descartes Asks the Following: "How Do I Know That I

Descartes asks the following: "how do I know that I am not also deceived each time I add together two and three"? Furthermore, "If, however, it were repugnant to the goodness of God to have created me subject to constant deception, it would seem likewise to be contrary to his goodness to allow me to be occasionally deceived; and yet it is clear that this is permitted." From this Descartes concludes that …

A) "God does not exist."
B) "religious authority is not trustworthy."
C) "the results of mathematics, such as 2 + 3 = 5 cannot be doubted."
D) "there is nothing of all that I formerly believed to be true of which it is impossible to doubt."

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