The Concept of Power and the Eternity of the Eternal Truths in Descartes

Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (2):189-200 (1999)
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In this paper I argue that Descartes's earliest proclamation of his curious modal theory supports the conceptualist analysis of it, according to which the eternity of the eternal truths is a conceptual matter, not something more profound than that

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10.1111/j.2041-6962.1999.tb00864.x

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