Truth and Stability in Descartes’ Meditations

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 16:75-108 (1990)
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The announced project of the Meditations, it is usually supposed, is to get rid of all error by rejecting everything that might be false, thus retaining only what is certainly true; the next step is to acquire further certainly true beliefs by valid inference from that foundation.

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10.1080/00455091.1990.10717223

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original Bennett, Jonathan (1990) "Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations". Canadian Journal of Philosophy (Supplementary Volume) 16(sup1):75-108
reprint Bennett, Jonathan (1990) "Truth and Stability in Descartes' Meditations". Canadian Journal of Philosophy 16(Supplement):75-108

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