Descartes and More on the infinity of the world.
In this paper, I address the controversy between Henry More and René Descartes on the indefinite extension of the world. I provide a new reading of Descartes' famous final answer of 15 April 1649. I read the entire debate in the terms of a disagreement concerning the epistemological status of the ne...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 878 - 897 |
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