God, human memory, and the certainty of geometry: an argument against Descartes
Descartes holds that the tell-tale sign of a solid proof is that its entailments appear clearly and distinctly. Yet, since there is a limit to what a subject can consciously fathom at any given moment, a mnemonic shortcoming threatens to render complex geometrical reasoning impossible. Thus, what en...
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[2016]
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Philosophy & theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 299-310 |
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Descartes, René 1596-1650
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/ Memory
/ Geometry
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