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    Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van...
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  • Afrikaans: Francine (same thing) Francine Bergé (born 1938), French film and stage actress Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter Francine Diaz...
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    René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58  was a French philosopher...
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    English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je...
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    philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation (by the Duke of Luynes with Descartes' supervision) was published...
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    Evil demon (redirect from Descartes demon)
    philosophy. In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes imagines that a malevolent God or an evil demon, of "utmost power and...
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    (Metaphysics 1011a6), and the Academic Skeptics. It is now best known from René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. The dream argument has become one of...
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    Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete...
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    Principles of Philosophy (Latin: Principia Philosophiae) is a book by René Descartes. In essence, it is a synthesis of the Discourse on Method and Meditations...
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  • Tutte Francine Descartes (1635–1640), René Descartes' daughter French frigate Descartes (1844–1867) French cruiser Descartes (1896–1920) René Descartes (ship)...
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    Res extensa is one of the two substances described by René Descartes in his Cartesian ontology (often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res...
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    Cartesianism (category René Descartes)
    Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably...
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  • introduction of mathematical methods into philosophy as seen in the works of Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza. This is commonly called continental rationalism...
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    of as mental substance is ultimately physical matter (i.e., brains). Descartes, who was most famous for the assertion "I think therefore I am", has had...
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  • although Descartes is sometimes given sole credit. Cartesian geometry, the alternative term used for analytic geometry, is named after Descartes. Descartes made...
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    La Géométrie (category Works by René Descartes)
    de la méthode (Discourse on the Method), written by René Descartes. In the Discourse, Descartes presents his method for obtaining clarity on any subject...
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    Passions of the Soul (category Works by René Descartes)
    completed in 1649 and dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, René Descartes contributes to a long tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature...
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    Discourse on the Method (category Works by René Descartes)
    sciences) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense...
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    Cartesian doubt (category René Descartes)
    methodological skepticism associated with the writings and methodology of René Descartes (March 31, 1596–February 11, 1650).: 88  Cartesian doubt is also known...
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  • presented his own version of the cosmological argument (the first way); René Descartes, who said that the existence of a benevolent God is logically necessary...
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    Wax argument (category René Descartes)
    argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy. He devised...
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    The Search for Truth by Natural Light (category Works by René Descartes)
    la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘honnête homme’ and ‘curiosité’.” It...
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    Rules for the Direction of the Mind (category Works by René Descartes)
    philosophical thinking by René Descartes. Descartes started writing the work in 1628, and it was eventually published in 1701 after Descartes' death. This treatise...
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    Bruyas, French missionary (d. 1712) July 19 – Francine Descartes, daughter of French philosopher René Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux...
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    Causal adequacy principle (category René Descartes)
    René Descartes that the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently. Descartes defends...
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  • Glass Bees"] Discourse (2017). "Some Remarks on the Legacy of Madame Francine Descartes" Archived 2018-02-02 at the Wayback Machine (Public Domain Review)...
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  • Bruyas, French missionary (d. 1712) July 19 – Francine Descartes, daughter of French philosopher René Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux...
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    Trademark argument (category René Descartes)
    existence of God developed by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. The name derives from the fact that the idea of God existing in each...
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  • France. June 3 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688) July 19 – Francine Descartes (d. 1640) July 23 – Adam Dollard des Ormeaux (d. 1660) October 7 –...
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  • the Blackfriars Theatre in London. July 16 – Birth of René Descartes' daughter, Francine, at Deventer. August 23 – A few days before his death, beset...
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