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Nothing should be accepted as true unless it is known so clearly and distinctly that no ground for doubt remains
Drawn from what René Descartes said
What René Descartes actually said
- René Descartes French philosopher and mathematician (1596 to 1650)
The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.
Where this was said
↗Discourse on the Method (tr. John Veitch, 1850)gutenberg.org
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