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"Descartes, René (1596-1650)"
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"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1644, 1647
"But the fact that we feel a pain as it were in our foot does not make it certain that the pain exists outside our mind, in the foot, any more than the fact that we see light as it were in the sun, makes it certain the light exists outside us, in the sun."
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