Perspective voyage · 1641
If every bodily fact is doubted, does the thinking self remain, and could it exist without the body?
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Descartes structures the Meditations to withdraw from the senses through doubt and reach certainty about the thinking subject.
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René Descartes
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4.2 The Meditations; Meditation II
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1641 CE · 1641
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