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Speech Sound by Octavia Butler affirms Descartes Reason as the essence of Humanity “ I think therefore I exist”. Descartes argues that humans do not need to speak nor hear to actually think but they need to think to be actually human. This is interpreted through his statement In Speech Sound Rye, and Obsidian are both sick. Rye cannot read but she can speak and Obsidian can read but not speak. They both are missing a “human” characteristic but according to Descartes they don 't need those characteristics to be human. Rye thinks about being with Obsidian or someone in general while Obsidian thinks about saving what is left of the world. They both have a thought process.

Today professor McCoy said what I said was BRILLIANT

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

The second, to divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.

The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.

And the last, in every case to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.

But the chief ground of my satisfaction with thus method, was the assurance I had of thereby exercising my reason in all matters, if not with absolute perfection, at least with the greatest attainable by me: besides, I was conscious that by its use my mind was becoming gradually habituated to clearer and

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