What does Decartes mean with his statement 'I think therefore I am'?

Previously in his meditations Decartes attempts to question everything he takes to be given as true through methodological skepticism. He finds that everything in the world around him can be questioned, but the fact that he thinks and perceives his own thoughts is proof of his own existence as a thinking thing.  

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