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Rene Descartes

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July 30, 2015

 

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All of the responses and ‘objections’ were published in later editions of the Meditations, along with Descartes’ responses. However, the longest and most critical objection came from Gassendi. Descartes even asked that Gassendi’s objections be left out of the French translation because they were “extremely long” and because “a single objection which those who have slight understanding of my Meditations will not, in my view, be able to answer quite easily without any help from me...
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Gassendi eventually published his objections as Disquisitio Metaphysica adversus Cartesium, which objects to every point Descartes made in the Meditations. However, all of Gassendi’s objections were able to be adequately answered (to the public, not necessarily to Gassendi) by Descartes. Gassendi had so many objections to Descartes’ work that it would be impossible to go into them all here, but perhaps the best example of Gassendi’s objections and why Descartes system had more influence can be seen in their debate on Descartes’ Second Meditation...
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