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‘The only sure sign …’: Thought and Language in Descartes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2010

John Cottingham
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Some people like to think that the modern discipline of philosophy has little if anything to learn from the history of the subject, but in reality the philosophical inquiries of each generation always take shape against the background of an implicit dialogue with the actual or imagined ideas of past thinkers. Many of our current debates on the relationship between thought and language bear the imprint of what the ‘father of modern philosophy’ said, or is supposed to have said.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 42 , March 1997 , pp. 29 - 50
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1997

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