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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

Six days of thinking: doubt everything, find what can't be doubted, and rebuild knowledge from there.

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Volume
28 of the 1990 set
Author
René Descartes (1596–1650)
Work
Meditations on First Philosophy, with the Objections and Replies 1641

Ideas: Doubt and certainty How we know anything God The mind

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