Discourse On The Method - Influencing Future Science

Influencing Future Science

The most important influence, however, was the first precept, which states, in Descartes words," never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such".

This method of pro-foundational skepticism is considered by some to be the start of modern philosophy.

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