WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Carte′sian doubt′, [Philos.]
  1. Philosophywillful suspension of all interpretations of experience that are not absolutely certain: used as a method of deriving, by elimination of such uncertainties, axioms upon which to base theories.

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