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Essay heading: Rene Descartes
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One can oversimplify the Second Mediation into the search for identity, and it is also where the term Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am) comes from. Descartes is saying that he is aware of his own existence because he is aware that he thinks. Gassendi had many problems with this idea and the way that Descartes presented it...
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Gassendi had many problems with this idea and the way that Descartes presented it. Gassendi said that Descartes strayed from his original intention to show that the nature of the mind is better known than the nature of the body. According to Gassendi, all Descartes did was complicate the well know idea that the human mind exists...
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