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Descartes, René
- A seventeenth-century French philosopher . He is known for his statement “ I think; therefore I am .” Descartes relied on reason to explain the workings of the universe; his ideas are often called “Cartesianism,” after the Latin form of his name.
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There was then in Europe one of the greatest thinkers ever given to mankind—Rene Descartes.
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Rene Descartes, a celebrated French philosopher and mathematician, died, aged 54.
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