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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Approximate author period: c. 1623 AD · renaissance
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- Rene Descartes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1623 AD · renaissance
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Rene Descartes: recorded author lifetime 1596–1650. Source: https://edsverb.com/authors/rene-descartes (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is rene-descartes; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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