Part I
Review of his Jesuit education at La Fleche: languages, history, eloquence, poetry, mathematics, theology, philosophy—finding only mathematics offered certain demonstrations.
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From Discourse on the Method by René Descartes
Descartes recounts his disillusionment with bookish learning—philosophy contains nothing not in dispute; only mathematics offers certainty.
Part I
There is nothing imaginable so strange or so little credible that it has not been maintained by one philosopher or another.Read in Books4Free →
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