Definition of Cartesian

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CARTESIAN adjective

	Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum -- whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;' as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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CARTESIAN:
k?:?ti:zj?n adj. & n. --adj. of or relating to R. Descartes, 17th-c. French philosopher and mathematician. --n. a follower of Descartes. øCartesian coordinates a system for locating a point by reference to its distance from two or three axes intersecting at right angles. øøCartesianism n. [mod.L Cartesianus f. Cartesius, name of Descartes]

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