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Descartes Responds To Hobbes Materialist Objections

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Descartes Responds To Hobbes Materialist Objections

Descartes, Rene · Philosopher

Thomas Hobbes challenged Cartesian arguments about mind and existence in objections circulated with the Meditations. Descartes's replies defended the difference between thinking substance and corporeal explanation.

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