#Descartes is an accidental proponent of an #epistemology based *purely* on #intersubjectivity, with the object abandoned as an end of knowledge--or, rather, wherein the object is seen purely as an effect or product of knowledge rather than its goal. This is why trying to know the world "independently of our minds" is for Descartes, in practice, simply trying to know God's mind and one's self. #Cartesianism #philosophy