Twitter Google Share on Facebook Also found in:Thesaurus,Medical,Encyclopedia. ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. Rene Descartes- French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a poin...
See also: 31 Mar - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Descartes's birth. Descartes: A Biography, by Desmond M. Clarke. - book suggestion. Booklist for René Descartes. In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my ...
If that is so, why are twins who are separated at birth still noted to have very similar personalities, not exactly the same but eerily similar considering completely different nurture? Oh, and regardless of how you answer these... still talking about something completely differen...
Russell Shorto: First, a word of clarification because one or two reviewers have claimed that the book argues for Descartes—as opposed to someone else—as the grand figure in the birth of modernity. The real point is to trace the very exotic path of the bones of Descartes, and then to ...
mother died in May of the year following his birth,and he, his full brother and sister, Pierre and Jeanne, were left tobe raised by their grandmother in La Haye. At around ten years of age,in 1606, he was sent to the Jesuit college of La Flèche. Hestudied there until 1614, and in...
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In two rarely discussed passages – from unpublished notes on the Principles of Philosophy and a 1647 letter to Chanut – Descartes argues that the question of the infinite (or indefinite) extension of space is importantly different from the...