Descartes
Rene Descartes (1596-1650), was one of the greatest philosophers of our time. He was influential not only in physics, natural sciences, mathematics, but most importantly his work on philosophy. Although his way of thinking may be skeptical, and rather harsh, his conceptions of hyperbole doubt, "I think, therefore I exist," and the relationship between the mind and body is rather convincing.
One of Descartes most famous principles is the hyperbole (exaggeration) doubt. Descartes starts out by simply doubting everything at first. Although this is being carried out to the extreme, it is important to understand what his goal is. Descartes wants to take away all doubt and rebuilt our knowledge of the world from scratch. In order to do that, he proposes to doubt "everything doubtable first and then moves on once one finds certainty" (text; 25). This means that whatever he doubts, he rejects, and only takes facts that he can sure to be true.
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