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“The single design to strip one‘s self of all past beliefs is one that ought not to be taken by everyone.” -directly from Descartes
Meditation on First Philosophy | 
“The single design to strip one‘s self of all past beliefs is one that ought not to be taken by everyone.” -directly from Descartes
So this morning my dissertation research proposal was accepted without amendment, which is pretty freaking awesome. My tutor recommended I really get to grips with Descartes and not just use him as a name drop, so I looked out my Dad‘s Britannica edition on Descartes. Like a little message from the After Life, my dad‘s caps lock YES greets me from the front page. Managed not to cry.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.
