Silencing the Demon’s Advocate

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Silencing the Demon’s Advocate
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ISBN-10 : 9780804779661
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Book excerpt: The author argues that many problems of interpretation including notorious problems of circularity, arise from a failure to recognise that Descartes' strategy for the attainment of certainty is not to add support for his beliefs, but to subtract grounds for doubt.


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