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Rene Descartes' Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1641), structured as six days of first-person meditation. Systematically doubts all belief that admits any possibility of error, arrives at the cogito as the sole surviving certainty, and rebuilds knowledge of the external world, God and the mind-body distinction from that foundation.

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1641 1
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Latin 1
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Rene Descartes, Philosophers
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Metaphysics, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind, Branches of Philosophy
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: Rene Descartes
Quote, entry: Rene Descartes
the Meditations, and presumably he was revising or recasting the Latin treatise from 1629 and elaborating on Discourse IV.
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Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationIn Branch: Philosophy of Mind, s.v. DualismView the Source
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