Both Uses of
Descartes
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- A fuller formation of Descartes's philosophy would be Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.†
p. 166.9Descartes = René Descartes -- French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
- Descartes wanted to know if you could really know that anything was real, but he believed his ability to doubt reality proved that, while it might not be real, he was.†
p. 166.9 *
Definition:
French philosopher and mathematician who invented the Cartesian coordinate system and broke ground in objective philosophical thought (1596-1650)