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The mind–body distinction asks how thought and bodily existence differ and relate. Descartes’s argument for distinct natures also confronts their intimate union in experience.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 48
How far can doubt take us?
Descartes moves from deliberate doubt to the certainty that he is thinking, a starting point the lesson keeps apart from his further claims about mind and body.