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Science contra the Meditations: The Existence of Material Things
The European Legacy 27 (3-4):348-360 (2022)
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In the Sixth Meditation, Descartes intends to prove that material things exist. His proof, which centers on the origin of the ideas of material things, has frequently been judged weak. But there is...Author's Profile
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The philosophical writings of Descartes.René Descartes - 1984 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
“The body I call ‘mine’ ”: A sense of bodily ownership in Descartes.Colin Chamberlain - 2019 - European Journal of Philosophy 27 (1):3-24.
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