The Cartesian Meditations show other subjects are constituted as 'analogical apperceptions' of the primordial ego, making others epistemically derivative, not constitutively necessary.

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Analogical apperceptions(how Husserl argues we come to know other minds): The idea that we understand other people's thoughts and feelings by assuming they're similar to our own—basically, we guess what others are like based on our own experience.
Cartesian: # Cartesian "Cartesian" refers to a system of organizing space using perpendicular lines or axes (usually labeled x, y, and z) that intersect at a point called the origin, allowing you to pinpoint any location using numbers called coordinates. The term comes from René Descartes, a 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician who developed this method as a way to bridge geometry and algebra. You use it every day without thinking about it—GPS coordinates, video game graphics, and even spreadsheet cells all rely on this Cartesian coordinate system.
Cartesian Meditations(the title of the work being discussed): A famous philosophical work by Edmund Husserl (1931) where he questions what we can really know for certain, starting from doubt about everything except our own thinking mind.
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