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# Basic Truths
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/basic-truths/
- Published: 2021-07-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-19T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: When old Descartes set out to know what "being" was about He thought of every to and fro But did settle on doubt
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

When old Descartes set out to know  
what "being" was about  
He thought of every to and fro  
But did settle on doubt

Doubt comes with its own paradox  
You can't doubt that you doubt  
These philosophic building blocks  
Provided Descartes' route

You start with this truth, and the rest  
should fall in place, old chum  
Remember it, it is expressed  
Cogito, ergo sum

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783852-To-see-without-truth-is-blindness