Cartesian Metaphysics
Subtitle: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521452915
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Scholasticism; History & Surveys - General; Metaphysics; Philosophy Of The 16th And 17th Centuries; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Descartes, Renâe,--1596-1650--Contributions in metaphysics; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Contributions in metaphysics; 1596-1650; Contributions in essentialism; Descartes, Rene,; Essentialism (Philosophy); History
First sentence: Descartes believed that knowledge of a thing's nature is prior to knowledge of its existence.