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... Descartes was much impressed by the fact that of all the sciences ' Arithmetic and Geometry alone are free from any taint of falsity or uncertainty ' [ ( 1 ) 1.4 ] . He explained how knowledge is acquired in those sciences in terms of ...
... Descartes was much impressed by the fact that of all the sciences ' Arithmetic and Geometry alone are free from any taint of falsity or uncertainty ' [ ( 1 ) 1.4 ] . He explained how knowledge is acquired in those sciences in terms of ...
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... Descartes and his followers that he is in fact attacking . There are many reasons for saying Locke has Descartes in mind here . For one thing , the ' opinion ' is Cartesian , and Leibniz in his discussion of Locke explicitly says so ...
... Descartes and his followers that he is in fact attacking . There are many reasons for saying Locke has Descartes in mind here . For one thing , the ' opinion ' is Cartesian , and Leibniz in his discussion of Locke explicitly says so ...
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... Descartes himself was not blind to the problem raised here . According to the French writer Voltaire ( 1694-1778 ) he thought that the soul in the womb has metaphysical thoughts which it forgets afterwards [ Aaron 90 ] . What Descartes ...
... Descartes himself was not blind to the problem raised here . According to the French writer Voltaire ( 1694-1778 ) he thought that the soul in the womb has metaphysical thoughts which it forgets afterwards [ Aaron 90 ] . What Descartes ...
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Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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