I resolved to reject as absolutely false everything in which I could imagine the least doubt… and to suppose that everything I saw was false; to believe that none of the things represented to me by my memory ever existed… Thus, because our senses sometimes deceive us, I wished to suppose that nothing was such as they made us imagine it to be… But immediately afterward I noticed that while I thus wished to think all things false, it must necessarily be that I, who thought this, was something.René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637)