TIL Descartes was a Monist.>And although the ideas which I receive by the senses do not depend on my will, I did not think that one should for that reason conclude that they proceeded from things different from myself, since possibly some faculty might be discovered in me -- though hitherto unknown to me -- which produced them.Why is it not called Cartesian Monism? He literally posits monism right hereā¦.Res Extensa <<<<<<Res Cognita.