I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also as to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Principles of Philosophy

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1644

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Strange & Unusual

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