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Scepticism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Foundations of Faith

Descartes came up with a phrase that still with us isn't it? So actually, his earliest formulation was in french, im japens danc jesui. But of course, we now of it from later version that he used in latin, the cogito ergo sum. I think, therefore i am. Was that received with any approbation or approval, or did people question thetIt was very controversial. It set the agenda for science for some decades to come. And it was challenged on the one hand by some religious christians. A bishop attaks decart saying, actually, he's under in the foundations of faith. Descartes himself

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