The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, to the knowledge of which man is capable, are mutually connected in the same way.
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Discourse on the Method, Part II

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1637

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Shocking

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