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This thinker’s metaphor of a tree of philosophy places the “most perfect moral system” on the highest branch. This thinker argued that the material world must exist due to our “great propensity” to believe that it causes our perceptions in a treatise’s sixth and final “day.” In a namesake “circle,” this thinker’s (20[1])ontological proof of God relies on “clear and (*) distinct” perceptions that are only reliable by virtue of him. Princess Elisabeth criticized this thinker’s notion of (10[1])unextended and extended substances, or res cogitans and res extensa, which he distinguished because the former’s (10[1])existence could not be doubted. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote the Meditations on First Philosophy, (10[4])which states “I think, therefore I am.” ■END■ (10[2])

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