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  • noun Plural form of Cartesian.

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Examples

  • Suppose the Cartesians were the philosophical equivalent of a political party.

    Old Assignment 2006

  • One of the chief reasons for the antagonism of the Cartesians was the idea of at - traction or action at a distance, which, far from being

    AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

  • [This is the work that stirred a great deal of controversy for Cartesians, which is not surprising given the theologically sensitive nature of the thesis that the body of Christ is actually present (extended) in the host.] “ “ “, 1675, Critique de la Critique de la Recherche de la vérité, Paris.

    Robert Desgabets Easton, Patricia 2006

  • Surveying a selection of modern "Cartesians," he makes a cogent argument for detente between faith and science, finding atheists such as Christopher Hitchens as intolerant as Islamic or Christian fundamentalists.

    Latest News 2008

  • Too bad the Cartesians began by denying there was such a thing as a single human nature.

    September 2nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • They will cop to being terribly Gallicly rude, or too Gallicly refined and continental to land ze American chick, and they will confess to a prejudice for logic over spirituality—“We French are Cartesians, after all,” explained Anne-Marie Leveque, a woman I had met in the cemetery and with whom I was discussing God.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • They will cop to being terribly Gallicly rude, or too Gallicly refined and continental to land ze American chick, and they will confess to a prejudice for logic over spirituality—“We French are Cartesians, after all,” explained Anne-Marie Leveque, a woman I had met in the cemetery and with whom I was discussing God.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • They will cop to being terribly Gallicly rude, or too Gallicly refined and continental to land ze American chick, and they will confess to a prejudice for logic over spirituality—“We French are Cartesians, after all,” explained Anne-Marie Leveque, a woman I had met in the cemetery and with whom I was discussing God.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • They will cop to being terribly Gallicly rude, or too Gallicly refined and continental to land ze American chick, and they will confess to a prejudice for logic over spirituality—“We French are Cartesians, after all,” explained Anne-Marie Leveque, a woman I had met in the cemetery and with whom I was discussing God.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • Saltz wants to wrest art away from what he calls "neo-Cartesians," those "dogmatists, ideologues, academics, and theorists who demonize and belittle art as a gratuitous, semi-mystical, merely beautiful, purely formal amusement."

    Politics and Literature 2007

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