This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
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- Author's profession: Mathematician
- Nationality: french
- Born: March 31, 1596
- Died: February 11, 1650
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