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The floating man is not the cogito: Ibn Sina and Descartes compared
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Layla Haddad
Consciousness
Islamic
Modern European
Falsafa
Ibn Sina
René Descartes
#floating-man
#self-awareness
Last reply Layla Haddad
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Aug 2026