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Rene Descartes Quotes: 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.


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