This philosopher wrote of a heliocentric world in his scientific inquiry The World, but abandoned it after hearing of Galileo's condemnation.
This philosopher wrote of a heliocentric world in his scientific inquiry The World, but abandoned it after hearing of Galileo's condemnation. This philosopher compared the task of separating knowledge from false belief with separating good and bad apples in the last of a set of replies to objections to one of his books. In that book, he wrote "whether I am awake or asleep, two and three add up to five" and used a (*) melting ball of wax to illustrate the importance of grasping things through reason. He imagined that all his knowledge of the world was corrupted by an evil demon and doubted his own existence in his Meditations on First Philosophy. For 10 points, name this philosopher, whose Discourse on Method contains the statement "I think, therefore I am."
This philosopher wrote of a heliocentric world in his scientific inquiry The World, but abandoned it after hearing of Galileo's condemnation.
René Descartes