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Rene Descartes - Part 4: Fault Lines in the House of Certainty
What happens when you demand absolute certainty—and the very structure designed to deliver it begins to crack? Descartes’s system was bold, but critics wasted no time pressing on its weak points. If you start with the isolated self, can you ever truly escape that solitude? The first challenge is almost built in.
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