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Meditations on First Philosophy

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Meditations on First Philosophy moves from systematic doubt toward claims about the thinker and the world. The cogito alone does not establish everything the later meditations argue.

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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.