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the limit of doubt is not an ego doing the doubting but rather the meaning of "doubt" as a word/thing that humans do

as in, you can't coherently doubt something without first understand what it means to doubt, what it is to 'doubt' something.

So you prove the existence of doubt by doubting that you're doubting. by doubting you're doubting, you prove the existence of doubt.

and from there you find your way back to the external world- or at least others through an analysis of doubt as being embedded within a language - a social practice, something taught within a community and can only be coherently understood against a background pre-theoretical understanding of truth/facticity.

to coherently doubt something means to perform a practice embedded and encultured, and leared within the context of a language community - a family, others, all of which are embedded within a background understanding of what it means for something to be true.

so my point is basically descartes tried to find the limit of doubt - and ended with an ego doing the doubting (he basically just begs the question, assumed the conclusion that ego exists and does the doubting). and from there he somehow found god and then an external world.

whereas what I am saying is that the limit of doubt is the coherence of doubt itself, and you find the limit of scepticism at the meaning and understanding of the practice of doubting. and from there you return to the external world from your scepticism through an analysis of the context doubt exists within (a cultural practice, exists among a community of language speakers (doubt itself is a word), within an external world of facts and truth (which must exist in order for doubt to even be coherent, if there's no truth there's no doubt).).

basically it goes
1. global scepticism
2. the limit is the meaning and coherence of the actual doubt involed in the scepticism (you can't doubt you're doubting without performing doubt)
3. to perform doubt means to participate in a socially learned practice (others), which exists within the context of an external world of truth beyond yourself.

Thoughts?