Discourse on the Method, part 3, ¶ 6-5 (ChatGPT)

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In this effort, I believe I was quite successful. Since I aimed to uncover the falsehood or uncertainty of the propositions I examined using clear and definite reasoning, I found that nothing was so doubtful that it didn’t lead to some conclusion with sufficient certainty, even if that conclusion was simply that the matter had no certainty at all.

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In this, as appears to me, I was successful enough; for, since I endeavoured to discover the falsehood or incertitude of the propositions I examined, not by feeble conjectures, but by clear and certain reasonings, I met with nothing so doubtful as not to yield some conclusion of adequate certainty, although this were merely the inference, that the matter in question contained nothing certain.