Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650
Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650
Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650
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Third Meditation: <strong>Descartes</strong> writes [35]:In this brief list I have gone through everything I truly know, or lasteverything I have so far discovered that I know. Now I will cast around morecarefully to see whether there may be other things within me which I havenot yet noticed. I am certain that I am a thinking thing. Do I not thereforealso know what is required for my being certain about anything? In this firstitem of knowledge there is simply a clear and distinct perception of what Iam asserting; this would not be enough to make me certain of the truth ofthe matter if it could ever turn out that something which I perceived withsuch clarity and distinctness was false. So I now seem to be able to lay itdown as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly istrue.73