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| Jan 1 at 1:22 | comment | added | howdood | Apart from the fact that Descartes specifically presents his project as one of getting knowledge in "natural philosophy" (what we now think of as science) on a footing of certainty. And (as a point of order) Descartes doesn't only believe in knowledge by divine light/intuition - empirical knowledge is also possible once God's existence is proved. Last two meditations make that clear. | |
| Dec 31, 2023 at 21:57 | comment | added | Philip Klöcking♦ | As for apodictic scientific knowledge, I think Kant and Hegel would be much better examples. Descartes only has thw category of knowledge "by divine light", there's not much to get from him about scientific knowledge specifically imho. | |
| Dec 30, 2023 at 0:24 | history | answered | howdood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |