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Descartes Defends Three Primitive Notions

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Descartes Defends Three Primitive Notions

Descartes, Rene · Philosopher

In correspondence with Elisabeth Descartes distinguished notions of mind, body and their union. The framework sought to explain why embodied human experience cannot be understood by analyzing mind or matter alone.

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