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Descartesean
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Etymology
From en Descartes ean.
Adjective
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en Descartesian.
en w:Richard Bleiler; other contributors Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day Charles Scribner’s Sons 1999 312 2 0-684-80593-6 This displays one side of the binary in all its Platonic-Descartesean arrogance.
en Eugene B. Borowitz A Track: Leading on from God, the Ground of Our Values Studies in the Meaning of Judaism JPS Scholar of Distinction Series Philadelphia, Pa. The Jewish Publication Society 2002 99 9780827609983 It had finally become clear to me that as long as one maintained that, in some Descartesean fashion, the individual was the ultimate judge of truth and the source of all legitimate authority, the Jewish group (or any other, for that matter) could not be given its proper due.
en Prateek Goorha; w:Jason Potts Preface Creativity and Innovation: A New Theory of Ideas w:Palgrave Macmillan 2019 xi 978-3-319-94884-3 To a philosopher, theories of ideas—Descartesean, Lockean, Humean, and so forth—are the subject of intense and unresolved debate.