‘Reason now leads me to think that I should hold back my assent from opinions which are not completely certain and indubitable’ (Descartes in the First Meditation). Is this correct?

My interpretation of this quote is based on the combination of all my past experiences in this world. Yet none of my advances in life have ever been based on certainty. Indeed, my core belief in myself has oft been destroyed by the sting of uncertainty. In this illusion of life - where uncertainty is the only certainty - how can I form opinions based exclusively on certainty? Is an appeal to the real a realistic tool to employ whence all is unreal anyhow?

In finding the one true logic from which one forms opinions, it may be necessary to acknowledge value in illusion. Descarte states that in this dreaming illusory state we have found the “pleasant illusion.” I question this: why may our “peaceful sleep�...