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The A Priori in the Thought of Descartes: Cognition, Method and Science
Ist Teil von
The Review of Metaphysics, 2017, Vol.71 (2), p.390-392
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Philosophy Education Society, Inc., The Catholic University of America
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
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Beforehand, he prepares for this discussion by commenting on and interpreting several other themes, explaining how they bear on the a priori, especially: the nature of cognition (whether knowledge is more than regulation by clear and distinct perceptions); the will as a stabilizing principle in knowledge (whether the will is primary in rescuing the intellect from inattention and error); and the nature of innate ideas (whether innate ideas belong only to understanding or to all the mind's perceptions).A clear and distinct idea involves "metaphysical certainty," a belief or cognition that is "immune from any possible sceptical episode which would raise a possibility that additional evidence should prompt abandonment of the belief in question."[...]it was natural for Descartes to read Aristotle as primarily a logician, a reading reinforced by Descartes's ambition to build a logical system.