In 1637, Descartes
in his publication “Method
of Rightly Conducting the Reason”, proposed the
Cartesian Method, where he recommends that so as to be completely certain that whatever we accept is
genuinely true, we must first consciously reject all every firmly held but debatable
beliefs we have acquired beforehand by experience and education.
On the relationship between experience and knowledge, Descartes assets that
only that which is clearly perceived without doubts can furnish knowledge. To
him, such things as experience and arbitrary judgement cannot furnish
knowledge.
