Who is Rene Descartes

René Descartes ( or UK: ; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] (listen); Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650: 58 ) was a French lay Catholic philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics were central to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Descartes spent much of his working life in the Dutch Republic, initially serving the Dutch States Army, later becoming a central intellectual of the Dutch Golden Age.Many elements of Descartes' philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine. In his natural philosophy, h...
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Rene Descartes Poems

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Rene Descartes Quotes

• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.
• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
• It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

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Comments about Rene Descartes

• Lwinckles: “whenever anyone has offended me, i try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” - rené descartes
• Mentaltillage: “the last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that i should be certain of omitting nothing.” ― rené descartes, discourse on method
• Buckwoodymsft: rené descartes in 1637: "how many different automata or moving machines could be made by the industry of man ... for we can easily understand a machine's being constituted so that it can utter words, and even emit some responses to action on it of a corporeal kind, which brings
• Cr1tbot5000: rene descartes would be proud! this titty thinks, therefore, it is!
• Dhananjay_irs: "i think, therefore i am" rene descartes

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