The Search for Truth by Natural Light
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The Search for Truth by Natural Light
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The Search for Truth by Natural Light is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘honnête homme’ and ‘curiosité’.” It was written in French but first published in Dutch translation in a collection of letters from Descartes by J.H. Glazemaker, and then in a Latin translation in the Opuscola posthuma, physica & mathematica. The original French was lost around 1700 but a partial copy was discovered in G.W. Leibniz's papers in Hanover in 1908 and pub
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Philosophical dialogue by Descartes
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2021-12-22T05:39:44Z
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2024-09-02T04:52:24Z
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