Rene Descartes

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Mathematician
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:Scientific_Revolution
gptkb:Enlightenment
gptkbp:birth_date March 31, 1596
gptkbp:born_in gptkb:La_Haye_en_Touraine
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:philosophy_of_mind
metaphysics
epistemology
gptkbp:death_date February 11, 1650
gptkbp:died_in gptkb:Stockholm
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Poitiers
gptkbp:famous_quote Cogito, ergo sum
I think, therefore I am
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The use of reason is to be able to distinguish between truth and falsehood.
The more perfect a thing is, the more it resembles the divine.
gptkbp:field gptkb:science
gptkb:Mathematics
gptkb:philosophy
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Rene Descartes
gptkbp:influence rationalism
modern philosophy
continental philosophy
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Alfred_North_Whitehead
gptkb:Hannah_Arendt
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:Bertrand_Russell
gptkb:Simone_de_Beauvoir
gptkb:Richard_Rorty
gptkb:David_Hume
gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche
gptkb:Jacques_Derrida
gptkb:John_Dewey
gptkb:Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
gptkb:Jean-Paul_Sartre
gptkb:Michel_Foucault
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Galileo_Galilei
gptkb:Aristotle
gptkbp:invention Cartesian coordinate system
Cartesian product
Cartesian plane
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:Cartesian_dualism
Cartesian coordinate system
Cogito, ergo sum
rationalism
philosophical skepticism
analytical geometry
method of doubt
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:French
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:Discourse_on_the_Method
gptkb:Meditations_on_First_Philosophy
Principles of Philosophy
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Voltaire
gptkb:John_Locke
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Montesquieu
gptkb:Montaigne
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4