Descartes's famous quote "I think, therefore I am" was brought up as a counterpoint to the speaker's stance that the body is not an object but rather the subject of experience.
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Descartes said, I think therefore I am.
— Episode: 200. Don’t Tell Glennon to Love Her Body
Episode: 200. Don’t Tell Glennon to Love Her Body
Descartes's famous quote "I think, therefore I am" was brought up as a counterpoint to the speaker's stance that the body is not an object but rather the subject of experience.
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Descartes said, I think therefore I am.
What if Descartes, what if all that was wrong? What if every single thing that we have learned about who we are is wrong?
This book details Descartes's methodical approach to finding absolute truth through systematic doubt. The provided excerpt begins his process of discarding beliefs to arrive at irrefutable certainty.
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Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted even from my youth many false opinions for true and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly...
— Episode: Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Do...
Episode: Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Doubt
This book details Descartes's methodical approach to finding absolute truth through systematic doubt. The provided excerpt begins his process of discarding beliefs to arrive at irrefutable certainty.
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Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted even from my youth many false opinions for true and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful. And from that time I was convinced of the necessity of undertaking once in my life to rid myself of all the opinions I had adopted and of commencing a new the work of building from the foundation.
Episode: Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Doubt
This book details Descartes's process of methodical doubt, where he discards beliefs that can be doubted to arrive at an undeniable certainty: his own existence ('I think, therefore I am'). This work is considered foundational to modern rationalism.
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Several years have now elapsed since I first became aware that I had accepted even from my youth many false opinions for true and that consequently what I afterward based on such principles was highly doubtful.
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