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Descartes as in: René Descartes
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Descartes is commonly quoted for "I think, therefore I am."Descartes = French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
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Instead, as we moved from one relic to the next, they debated philosophy—Hobbes and Descartes, Aquinas and Machiavelli. (source)Descartes = famous 17th century philosopher who broke ground in objective philosophical thought
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Ever since Newton and Descartes, science has explicitly offered us the vision of total control.† (source)
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Rene, after Descartes, Immanuel, after Immanuel Kant, Emilie, after Emi-lie du Chatelet.† (source)
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A fuller formation of Descartes's philosophy would be Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.† (source)
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There is a direct line of descent from Socrates and Plato via St. Augustine to Descartes.† (source)
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The statue of Descartes came to his mind first.† (source)
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In the liberal atmosphere of seventeenth-century Holland, the French philosopher Rene Descartes found refuge and freedom to publish.† (source)
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Descartes took a decisive step forward: he made manmaitre et proprietaire de la nature.† (source)
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Rene Descartes was born in 1596 and lived in a number of different European countries at various periods of his life.† (source)
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Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.† (source)
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We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on.† (source)
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Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.† (source)
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Every one, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes' theory of pressure and impulsion.† (source)
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"That was Misanthrope with 'Descartes Dream,' " he said.† (source)
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In his book Descartes' Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: I suggested two alternative dates, both in the coming month and just a few days apart from each other.† (source)
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