Vocabulary List:

(definitions from http://www.m-w.com)

• Cogito - I know (Latin)
• Corporeal - of or pertaining to the body. (In this context, things, versus, ideas)
• Foundationalism - views of justification involving two essential elements: Self-justifying basic beliefs and inferential chains leading to non-basic beliefs.(a way out of substantive skepticism)
• Axiomatic Method - method by which things are proven based on one solid point, an undeniable, self-evident truth.
• Cartesian Doubt - way by which he relinquished all previous knowledge of things that were (by default) taken as truths. This way he would be able to rebuild his belief system based on one axiom.