The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

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Rene Descartes was a 16th-century French philosopher. RenĂ© Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Alone — Solitude, independence, and the experience of being alone

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