Frans Van Schooten
Franciscus van Schooten (1615 in Leiden – 29 May 1660 in Leiden) was a Dutch mathematician who is most known for popularizing the analytic geometry of René Descartes.
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“The line that I am urging as today’s conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, a repudiation of mind. It is indeed a repudiation of mind as a second substance, over and above body. It can be described less harshly as an identification of mind with some of the faculties, states, and activities of the body. Mental states and events are a special subclass of the states and events of the human or animal body.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)