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1048077
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b802447
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| Main Entry
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Flage, Daniel E.,1951-
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Descartes and method : : a search for a method in Meditations /\ Daniel E. Flage and Clarence A. Bonnen.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1999.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;; 2
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1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203023765
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: 0203159446
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: 0415192501
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: 1280333677
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: 661033367X
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: 9780203023761
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: 9780203159446
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: 9780415192507
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: 9781280333675
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: 9786610333677
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Descartes's method; Analysis: the search for laws; Analysis: the clarification of ideas; Causation; Appendix: the rainbow; Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy; Meditation One: doubts and suppositions; Meditation Two: the beginning of the ascent; Meditation Three: reaching the peak, or variations on the existence and idea of God; Meditation Four: truth and falsity: reflections from the summit; Meditation Five: the beginning of the descent; Meditation Six: the world restored; Circles; Notes.
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| Abstract
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In this genuinely ground-breaking book the authors argue against the orthodox conception that Descartes had no method. Through a rigorous and thorough examination they unearth and explain the role of the method of analysis in Meditiations.
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Descartes, René,1596-1650., Meditationes de prima philosophia.
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Philosophy Religion.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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Philosophy.
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Meditationes de prima philosophia (Descartes, René)
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| Dewey Classification
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194
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B1854.F57 1999eb
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08.24bcl
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| Added Entry
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Bonnen, Clarence A.,1958-
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