1. Decartes
Descartes himself described Meditations as being a philosophy much like a tree. ... On page 17 of Meditations on First Philosophy Descartes says " it was necessary.. to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last." ... All that the imagination allowed him to perceive about the body did not help him understand himself. ...
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