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  • Pour ce qu'alors je de  sirais vaquer seulement a'   la recherche de la ve  rite ,  je pensai qu'il fallait que je†rejetasse comme absolument faux tout ce en quoi je pourrais imaginer le moindre doute, afin de voir s'il ne resterait point, apre'  s cela, quelque chose en ma cre  ance qui f u" t entie'  rement indubitable. Sincemy present aimwastogivemyself up tothepursuit of truth alone, I thought I must†reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine the least doubt, in order to see if I should not be left at the end believing something that was absolutely indubitable.

    - Rene Descartes
      Discours de la me  thode (Discourse on Method), 4th discourse (translated by G E M  Anscombe and Peter Geach).

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