Descartes

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    René Descartes: A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650. countable, uncountable

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rene descartes

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"Good old Descartes thought so much that ... he was."

Etymology

From French Descartes.

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