First principle foundationalist system of philosophy. He used the "method of doubt", now called Cartesian doubt, to systematically doubt everything he could possibly doubt, until he was left with what he saw as purely indubitable truths. Using these self-evident propositions as his axioms, or foundations, he went on to deduce his entire body of knowledge from them. The foundations are also called "a priori" truths. His most famous proposition is "Je pense, donc je suis." ("I think, therefore I am", or "Cogito ergo sum") Descartes describes the concept of a first principle in the following excerpt from the preface to the "Principles
Fuzzy Ergo Sum he is a fan of Piper, and he’s also a good enough writer to pull off the right mix of homage and originality." However, several reviewers objected to the lack of any warning on the cover that this book ends on a cliffhanger, making the story incomplete. Fuzzy Ergo Sum Fuzzy Ergo Sum is a science fiction novel written during 2006-2009 by Wolfgang Diehr as a sequel to H. Beam Piper's Fuzzy trilogy: "Little Fuzzy", "Fuzzy Sapiens", and "Fuzzies and Other People". The trilogy concerns the discovery of a primitive species of small, childlike but sapient furry creatures on Zarathustra,