René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.
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Και πάντοτε είχα τεράστια επιθυμία να μάθω να ξεχωρίζω το ψεύτικο από το αληθινό, έτσι ώστε να κατανοώ καλά τις ίδιες τις πράξεις μου και να προχωρώ με σιγουριά σε τούτη τη ζωή.
I am, I exist” is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.
Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true, and thus how doubtful were all those that I had subsequently built upon them.
