“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”
― René Descartes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

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I bleat, therefore, I ram.

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something brief on Anne Conway and British early modernity in ‘the longue durée’
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/26-mar-23-justin-sledge-episode-on-anne-conway/

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If we wish our #science to be complete, those matters which promote the end we have in view must one and all be scrutinized
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What can we clearly and manifestly #perceive by intuition or deduce certainly? There's no other way to acquire knowledge
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If in the matters to be examined we come to a step in the series of which our #understanding is not sufficiently well able to have an intuitive cognition, we must stop short there
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If we wish our science to be complete, those matters which promote the end we have in view must one and all be scrutinized
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The aim of our studies must be the direction of our mind so that it may form solid and true judgments on whatever matters arise
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things
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If we wish our science to be complete, those matters which promote end we have in view must one & all be scrutinized
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