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Cartesian   /kɑrtˈiʒən/   Listen
Cartesian

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Rene Descartes or his works.



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"Cartesian" Quotes from Famous Books



... virtues and the vices that equally rub him up the wrong way—all these things are highly conducive to the production of that first substratum of philosophic thinking, a Socratic attitude of supreme ignorance, a pure Cartesian ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... about his infirmity and an unhappy newcomer from the provinces who was just commencing his studies. He was working over a treatise on philosophy and reading innocently in a loud voice, with a wrong accent, the Cartesian principle: "Cogito, ergo sum!" ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... series," however, is vastly different from anything within the mental range of the distinguished professor, whose ultra materialism led him to revamp the old Cartesian doctrine that animals were only machines, like clocks or mills, running automatically, and ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 - Volume 1, Number 2 • Various
... one of the consequences of the Cartesian Dualism: as if [Greek: sarx], the living body, could be or exist without a soul, or a human living body without a human soul! [Greek: Sarx] is not Greek for carrion, ...
— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Words linked to "Cartesian" :   Descartes, follower


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