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Training: Jesuit (religious), law license, mercenary army

Accomplishments:
Mathematics: analytic geometry

Philosophy: 
  Cogito ergo sum, uncertain of everything – even God.  
  Dualism of mind and body (body = complex machine, mind controls body via pineal gland).  Ideas are innate or from experience. Experience alter’s body’s hydraulic system (memories).
  Passions arise from body and cause involuntary behavior

Science: rigorous scientific approach since nothing can be taken as true.  Live dissections (animals don’t feel pain).

Criticisms of others: n/a

Criticized by others: Spinoza argued for unity of mind and body.

Systems: Nativist – knowledge uncovered by logic & deduction

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