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... Descartes . The rather artless clarity of Descartes ' writing impressed him by its contrast with the scholastic ' unintelligible way of talking ' and made him realize that philosophy could be more than pretentious verbalizing and term ...
... Descartes . The rather artless clarity of Descartes ' writing impressed him by its contrast with the scholastic ' unintelligible way of talking ' and made him realize that philosophy could be more than pretentious verbalizing and term ...
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... Descartes did , of ideas being ' in the mind ' , 1 as well as being objects of the mind . This was a double mistake . In the first place , a theory of knowledge which asserts that we can know the world only through the medium of certain ...
... Descartes did , of ideas being ' in the mind ' , 1 as well as being objects of the mind . This was a double mistake . In the first place , a theory of knowledge which asserts that we can know the world only through the medium of certain ...
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... Descartes in France , himself a mathematician of the first rank , devised a system in which the mathematical methods of the new physics were taken as the standard for all valid thinking . He even went to the extent of setting out part ...
... Descartes in France , himself a mathematician of the first rank , devised a system in which the mathematical methods of the new physics were taken as the standard for all valid thinking . He even went to the extent of setting out part ...
Contents
Introduction | 4 |
The Aim and Method of Lockes Theory of Knowledge | 23 |
Ideas and Experience | 41 |
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