Silencing the demon's advocate : the strategy of Descartes' Meditations /
The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index. |
ISBN: | 080477966X 9780804779661 |