"We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe."
"Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined."
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Source: Rene Descartes (2013). “Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc
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