I have long ago observed that in order to study the truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to demolish everything completely and start again from the foundations.
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation I

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1641

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Shocking

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