New Foundation of his beliefs
This is the end of skeptical hypothesis, Rene Descartes found a certainty from himself and start to build his undoubtedle foundational beliefs from here.
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Summary of Meditation II. Of the Nature of the Human Mind; and that it is more easily known than the Body.
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