Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best… - René Descartes

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Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

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About René Descartes

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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Alternative Names: Descartes • Cartesius • Renatus Cartesius
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Sağduyu dünyanın en iyi paylaştırılmış şeyidir, zira herkes onunla öylesine iyi donatılmış olduğunu düşünür ki başka her şeyde çok zor memnun olanlar bile sahip oldukları sağduyudan fazlasını hiç de arzu etmezler.
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