Discourse on the Method, part 6, ¶ 5-3

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René Descartes

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See pp. 9, 72.

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I still very much support Ukraine, but am convinced that massive escalation of the war will cause great harm to Ukraine and possibly the world. Elon Musk, Twitter (3 October 2022)

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Discourse on the Method (Veitch translation)

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But it has rarely happened that anything has been objected to me which I had myself altogether overlooked, unless it were something far removed from the subject: so that I have never met with a single critic of my opinions who did not appear to me either less rigorous or less equitable than myself.

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But though I recognise my extreme liability to error, and scarce ever trust to the first thoughts which occur to me, yet the experience I have had of possible objections to my views prevents me from anticipating any profit from them.