The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1

By John Cottingham

Those 1985 volumes supply a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, according to the simplest to be had Latin and French texts. they're meant to interchange the one quite entire collection of his works in English, via Haldane and Ross, first released in 1911. all of the works integrated in that version are translated the following, including a few extra texts the most important for an realizing of Cartesian philosophy, together with vital fabric from Descartes' medical writings. the end result may still meet the frequent call for for a correct and authoritative variation of Descartes' philosophical writings in transparent and readable smooth English.

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47   Following Crapulli’s analyzing of A and H, non facit (‘does no longer make’). AT learn nos facit (‘makes us’) with out giving any variation studying. 48   See element 8 less than, p. 50. 49   Reading immutatur, A, H (following Crapulli). AT undertake Leibniz’s emendation, immutamur (‘we change’). 50   Cf. Aristotle, Physics, IV, four, 212a5. 51   Cf. Aristotle, Physics, 111, 1, 201a10. 52   Cf. ideas, half 1, artwork. 10, p. 195 lower than. 53   Lat. scientia; see footnote on p. 10 above. 54   Lat. experimenta; see footnote at the similar French time period expériences, p. 143 lower than. 55   Reading eightvo A, following Crapulli. The version, five to, in H is a misreading of 8to. this can be the 8th ‘assumption’, following on obviously from the 7th (p. forty seven above). Conclusions one to 4 (pp. 48ff) are a protracted digression among ‘assumptions’ seven and 8. 56   There is a lacuna within the texts of A and H at this element. the subject is taken up back lower than, pp. 53f. 57   The ultimate set of twelve principles used to be now not accomplished. See Translator’s preface, p. 7 above. 58   The heart time period of a express syllogism is the time period which happens in either premisses yet no longer within the end; the intense phrases are the 2 phrases each one of which happens in a single premiss simply, and that are attached within the end. 59   William Gilbert, the English physicist (1540–1603), writer of De Magnete (1600). 60   Descartes didn't entire this job. 61   Reading comparandas, H (componendas, A, ‘composition’). 62   See less than, p. fifty five. 63   Lat. extensi, A, H. AT unnecessarily emend to exterioris (‘exterior’); Crapulli emends to externi (‘external’). 64   In scholastic physics ‘intrinsic’ position is the gap which a physique occupies. Cf. rules, pp. 227f under. 65   A lacuna within the texts of A and H. The misplaced subject is likely to be partly reproduced by way of Arnauld within the moment variation of his good judgment (the ‘Port-Royal Logic’), an extract from that's given within the Appendix under, p. seventy seven. 66   This passage follows the textual content of A. The textual content of AT is predicated on H, and includes a number of minor emendations. 67   H includes the word (in the margin), ‘This instance isn't totally actual, yet i didn't have a greater one for explicating what's real. ’ 68   I. e. matters of which attributes are predicated – the experience which ‘subject’ as a rule bears within the principles. 69   See above, pp. 12, sixteen, 36. 70   See above, pp. 40f, forty three. 71   See above, pp. 57f. 72   Lit. ‘multitudes’ (multitudines). 73   Triangular numbers are these which, like three, 6, 10, 15 and so forth. , might be prepared within the type of a triangle while expressed as a collection of issues. 74   See pp. 61f. 75   The translation of this sentence adheres to the textual content of A and H (following Crapulli). AT emend the textual content in any such manner that the word ‘draw a line’ turns into ‘draw it’, and ‘when an analogous line’ turns into ‘when it’. 76   See above, p. sixty five. 77   See above, p. sixty three. 78   Cf. above pp. sixty three ff. 79   Descartes’ inspiration this is to specific, for instance, the sequence, a, a2, a3, and so forth. as 1 × a, a × a, a2 × a, and so on. 80   See above, p. sixty four. 81   Lat. scientia; see footnote on p. 10 above. 82   See above, pp.

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