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    article "Descartes, René". The Correspondence of René Descartes in EMLO Works by René Descartes at Project Gutenberg Works by or about René Descartes at the...
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  • Paris Descartes University (French: Université Paris 5 René Descartes), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was...
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    English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc...
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  • but rather used as a thought experiment to assist skepticism (e.g. René Descartes' Cartesian skepticism).[citation needed] Mere denial of material existence...
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    Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van...
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  • religion at the time. One early contributor was a French philosopher, René Descartes. He reinforced an Aristotelian concept explaining the human mind that...
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  • description of René Descartes' mind–body dualism. Ryle introduced the phrase in The Concept of Mind (1949) to highlight the view of Descartes and others that...
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    town is locally nicknamed as the "town of the three Renés" (René Descartes, René de Buxeuil, and René Boylesve). The town is notable in Acadian genealogy...
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  • to our conscious mind). In his book Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes postulates three classifications for our ideas when he says, "Among...
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  • In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, described by René Descartes in his La Géométrie, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes...
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