‘Descartes’s One Rule of Logic’: Gassendi’s Critique of the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Perception

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1):51 – 72 (2005)
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This is about Gassendi's 5th Objections to the Meditations and Descartes' Reply. The main issue is what clear and distinct perception consists in and whether we need a criterion in order to know if we perceive something clearly and distinctly.

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