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    1. René Descartes was a French philosopher known for his work "Discourse on Method" published in 1637 which established the philosophical system of Cartesian Dualism that separates mind and matter. 2. Descartes believed that through reason and mathematical thinking one can understand the natural world, and that truth is only found through rationalism and mathematical thought, as expressed in his famous quote "I think, therefore I am."

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    1. René Descartes was a French philosopher known for his work "Discourse on Method" published in 1637 which established the philosophical system of Cartesian Dualism that separates mind and matter. 2. Descartes believed that through reason and mathematical thinking one can understand the natural world, and that truth is only found through rationalism and mathematical thought, as expressed in his famous quote "I think, therefore I am."

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    1. René Descartes was a French philosopher known for his work "Discourse on Method" published in 1637 which established the philosophical system of Cartesian Dualism that separates mind and matter. 2. Descartes believed that through reason and mathematical thinking one can understand the natural world, and that truth is only found through rationalism and mathematical thought, as expressed in his famous quote "I think, therefore I am."

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    1.

    French philosopher
    2. Author of – Discourse on Method 1637
    3. His philosophy stressed the separation of mind
    and matter = Cartesian Dualism
    4. Man can use reason/mathematical thinking to
    understand the world
    5. Truth is found only through
    reason/rationalism/ mathematical thought
    “I THINK, THEREFORE
    I AM.”
     FRANCIS BACON

    1. English lawyer, govt official,


    philosopher

    2. Rejected the ideas of Copernicus and


    Kepler

    3. Can only know natural world


    through inductive reasoning

    4. Inductive Reasoning -> from the


    particular to the general -> study a
    bunch of particular leaves to be able
    to make general statements about
    leaves

    5. Inductive reason is based on


    empiricism
     Empiricism =
    knowledge comes
    from observation and
    experience
     This is the foundation
    of the
    scientific/experiment
    al method

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