Bernard Williams and the Cartesian Circle

Analysis 40 (2):103 - 108 (1980)
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The article analyses williams' attempt (in chapter 7 of "descartes: the project of pure enquiry", Penguin 1978) to defend the reasoning of descartes' "third meditation" against the charge of circularity. It is contended not only that this attempt fails, But that its failure is rooted in williams' own correct account of descartes' philosophical purposes in the "meditations"

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10.1093/analys/40.2.103

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