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Descartean
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English
Etymology
From en Descartes<alt:Descarte(s)> an.
Adjective
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en Descartian.
en John W. Shull The Faculty of Language The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health.A Repository of Science, Literature and General Intelligence. Devoted to Ethnology, Physiology, Phrenology, Physiognomy, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Mechanical Industry, Hygiene, and to all those Progressive Measures which are Calculated to Reform, Elevate and Improve Mankind, Spiritually, Intellectually and Socially. Embellished with Numerous Portraits and Other Engravings. New York, N.Y. Fowler & Wells Co.,Publishers, 27 East 21st Street. June 1894 97 6 (whole no. 666) 278 1 But Idea in its Descartean sense will apply with equal aptness to the thoughts which are traceable to the feelings.
en Hubert J. M. Hermans; Harry J. G. Kempen The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement 1993 45 0-12-342320-1 Another feature that distinguishes James’ self from the Descartean Cogito is the inclusion of the body as part of the (material) self.
en Vivienne E. Perkins Letters to My Son: Meditations on the Gospel of Jesus Christ for a New Christian WestBow Press 2015 978-1-4908-8813-2 section “The totalitarian nature of the technological world” In history books, ideas like Descartean dualism get presented as inevitable. Their implications are not examined, nor are they rigorously criticized. Descartean thought came along, and it caught on, but the reasons why it caught on are not examined.