I suppose therefore that all the things I see are false imaginations; I believe that nothing ever existed of all that my fallacious memory represents to me.
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Meditations on First Philosophy

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1641

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Strange & Unusual

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