Silencing the Demon’s Advocate

Silencing the Demon’s Advocate
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780804779661
ISBN-13 : 080477966X
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Download or read book Silencing the Demon’s Advocate written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt.


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