Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Descartesian.
This displays one side of the binary in all its Platonic-Descartesean arrogance.
1999, Richard Bleiler, other contributors, Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 312, column 22 more examples
It had finally become clear to me that as long as one maintained that, in some Descartesean fashion, the individual was the ultimate judge of truth and the source of all legitimate authority, the Jewish group (or any other, for that matter) could not be given its proper due.
2002, Eugene B. Borowitz, “A Track: Leading on from God, the Ground of Our Values”, in Studies in the Meaning of Judaism (JPS Scholar of Distinction Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society, →ISBN, page 99To a philosopher, theories of ideas—Descartesean, Lockean, Humean, and so forth—are the subject of intense and unresolved debate.
2019, Prateek Goorha, Jason Potts, “Preface”, in Creativity and Innovation: A New Theory of Ideas, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page xi
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