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... Descartes was different - and therefore notable . Descartes , that is to say , was not at all the sort of philosopher whom women call " musty " or " snuffy " : not in the least like the professors whom one encounters in the pages of ...
... Descartes was different - and therefore notable . Descartes , that is to say , was not at all the sort of philosopher whom women call " musty " or " snuffy " : not in the least like the professors whom one encounters in the pages of ...
Page 414
... Descartes was not a free and unattached philosopher , but had al- lowed himself to be , so to say , " re- tained " as the philosophical adviser of Elizabeth , Princess Palatine . Or that , at all events , was Elizabeth's view of the ...
... Descartes was not a free and unattached philosopher , but had al- lowed himself to be , so to say , " re- tained " as the philosophical adviser of Elizabeth , Princess Palatine . Or that , at all events , was Elizabeth's view of the ...
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... Descartes was better able to help her than any of his contemporaries ; and he plunged in medias res with an ad- dress which shows him to have been a courtier as well as a metaphysician and mathematician , indicating , in one of his very ...
... Descartes was better able to help her than any of his contemporaries ; and he plunged in medias res with an ad- dress which shows him to have been a courtier as well as a metaphysician and mathematician , indicating , in one of his very ...
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