Definitions for Descartes

Descartes Des·cartes

Spelling: [dey-kahrt; French dey-kart
IPA: /deɪˈkɑrt; French deɪˈkart/

Descartes is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 514 anagrams from letters in Descartes (acdeersst).

Definitions for Descartes

noun

  1. René [ruh-ney;; French ruh-ney] /rəˈneɪ;; French rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1650, French philosopher and mathematician.

Examples for Descartes

Few people are of Descartes' mind, that squinting is pretty.

At last Descartes was snatched from the world in the flower of his age at Stockholm.

Somewhere, Descartes must be mulling a new declaration for the modern era: I emit carbon dioxide, therefore I am.

The Eleatic notion that being and thought were the same was revived in a new form by Descartes.

The system of Spinoza is less personal and also less dualistic than that of Descartes.

From the time of Descartes to Hume and Kant it has had little or nothing to do with facts of science.

The foundation of the system of Descartes is belief in God and in the goodness of God.

Descartes therefore made evidence the touchstone of certainty.

She gives no nods to the Humanists, like Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Erasmus, or Descartes.

Descartes got the start of him also in this astonishing invention.

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