Abstract

Over three hundred years ago, Descartes wrote: “I shall not say anything about Philosophy, but that, seeing that it has been cultivated for many cenuries by the best minds that have ever lived, and that nevertheless no single thing is to be found in it which is not subject of dispute, and in consequence which is not dubious.” Descartes meant this as a complaint and, I suppose, it is as a complaint that most people would read it. I think that what Descartes says was and after three centuries still is true. But I do not think that this is a source of complaint.