PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN DESCARTES

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ENRIQUE GOMEZ HARO

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Descartes sought to develop his own philosophy, not for philosophy's sake, but because he was aware that all sciences derived their principles from philosophy, which, in his opinion, lacked a solid foundation, and that the individual sciences themselves therefore lacked such a foundation. 1 That is, he sought to give philosophical speculation a pragmatic application, as a worthy representative of the Renaissance.

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