Cartesian Metaphysics
Subtitle: The Scholastic Origins of Modern Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780521616140
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Metaphysics; Descartes, Renae, --1596-1650--Contributions; Descartes, Renâe,--1596-1650--Contributions in metaphysics; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy-History & Surveys - Modern; History & Surveys - General
First sentence: Descartes believed that knowledge of a thing's nature is prior to knowledge of its existence.