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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes

“Whatever I Clearly and Distinctly perceive is certainly True”

Rene Descartes (spoken by The meditator)

Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation III, trans. William Molyneux (1680)

The general rule drawn from the certainty of his own existence, which the rest of the third meditation must secure by proving that God is no deceiver.

Citation: "Whatever I Clearly and Distinctly perceive is certainly True" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation III, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q5)

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