Necessity and Physical Laws in Descartes's Philosophy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 68 (3/4):205 (1987)
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I argue that although in his earlier work descartes thought of the laws of motion as "eternal truths," he later came to think of them as truths whose necessity is of a different type

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