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14 VAISHALI INSTITUTE RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 2
Descartes' doubt is not for doubt sake but for the sake of obtaining the truth. He says though everything be doubted the doubting cannot be doubted. One doubts means he thinks. He thinks, means he exists because thinking cannot be without a thinker. Thus Descartes comes to conclude--"I think therefore I exist-Cogito ergo sum.”
In this way one can see theory of doubt in both East and West but it will be of no use to raise a new problem-whether the East has influenced the West or the West has stamped the East.
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