Doubt: Is It Simply Spoken For Truth?

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Doubt is commonly mistaken for a lack of faith in the things someone believes. I believe doubting something is the only true way to actually believing anything. If things are never critically thought and rather just blindly accepted then who is to say that view point or idea has any value or is worth while. This being said, I completely agree with Descrates when he says “If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.” His quote simply explains that in order to seek truth we must doubt and that its necessary to doubt at least once everything.
The only way for views to be proven wrong is to start with a doubt in the previous one. The idea that the world …show more content…

When a previously learned belief is doubted for a critical thinker mind it should be attempted to be proven wrong. However, if the belief holds up under the pressure, and cannot be proven wrong the belief is then stronger and becomes more reliable.
In my personal life experience, I have been a doubter next to everything, doubt has been a necessity to the way I learn about anything. With a mind that enjoys proving things wrong I doubt most of the things I come across from religion to academics through relationships, I attempt to find holes, detect untruths, and identify the deepest meaning of truth in all situations.
My doubt in religion was my best example of being a critical thinker with the use of doubt. When I was in adolescent I was introduced to Christianity and blindly believed as I think most children do. As I matured I lost my belief in the idea of religion as a whole. I doubted the possibility of any religion being factual but rather just a way to occupy the mind. When I finally did the research and challenged beliefs I found that there was only one believable option for me and it continues to be the belief I hold to this day. It took challenging and doubting all the options in order to find out what I truly

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