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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reason Discourse by Rene Descartes: altogether overlooked, unless it were something far removed from the
subject: so that I have never met with a single critic of my opinions who
did not appear to me either less rigorous or less equitable than myself.
And further, I have never observed that any truth before unknown has been
brought to light by the disputations that are practised in the schools;
for while each strives for the victory, each is much more occupied in
making the best of mere verisimilitude, than in weighing the reasons on
both sides of the question; and those who have been long good advocates
are not afterwards on that account the better judges.
As for the advantage that others would derive from the communication of my
thoughts, it could not be very great; because I have not yet so far
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