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Sinking Cartesian sand.(Letter to the editor)

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| October 01, 2008 | Costigan, Imanuel | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

SIR." Peter Arnold ends his letter in the July-August 2008 edition declaring, "I think, therefore I am ... an atheist."

I suppose that Mr Arnold is aware of the original intent behind Descartes' dictum. It was not the introduction of methodological atheism, as he would hope. Rather Descartes hoped "Cartesian doubt" would provide a philosophical ...

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