The purpose of Descartes Meditations is a search for truth. Descartes has set out, from a philosophical perspective, to find out what truth he can, in the world we live in. In order to do this, Descartes reasons that he must throw out all previously held knowledge and start from scratch, allowing then a closer examination of each piece of knowledge, and discovering how it can be proven to be true (or false) and then …
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…his intellect. It is not the sense of touch that corrects the error, but the human mind to reason that visual perceptions were unreliable, since they produced two different possibilities, while touch yielded the correct response. However, it could easily be argued still that you are using one sense to correct the error in reasoning from another sense. If that is that case, then premise one of the first skeptical argument still contains a paradox.