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A Plea for the French Descartes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

John Morris
John Morris
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Michigan State University
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In a recent issue of Dialogue, John O. Nelson corrects what appears to be an inexplicable error in the Haldane-Ross edition of Descartes' Meditations. At a “very crucial place,” he tells us, the translation “fails to do justice to Descartes' text.”

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Discussions/Notes
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 1967 , pp. 236 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1967

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References

1 Nelson, John O. “In Defence of Descartes: Squaring a Reputed Circle.” Dialogue, III (1964), 262–272.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Haldane, Elizabeth S., and Ross, G. R. T., translators. The Philosophical Works of Descartes. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1955, p. 132.Google Scholar

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5 Haldane and Ross, p. 158.

6 Adam and Tannery, p. 28.

7 Adam and Tannery, p. 25.