Not sure this legitimately applies to Descartes.

… the scientistic mathematician Rene Descartes introduced this irrelevant standard to modern Western philosophy. You prove propositions in mathematics because in that field you get to make up all the rules. We don’t stipulate how the nonfictional world works, though, so there’s always room to doubt, disag…
Should Atheists Respect the Placebo of Religion?
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Benjamin Cain
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Not sure this legitimately applies to Descartes. This is a modern stance dating from the time of people like David Hilbert. Pretty sure Descartes (or Euclid) would have held that their axioms were empirically grounded.
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