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Notes
1. All references to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy are from the Routledge Philosophy in Focus series, edited with a critical introduction by Stanley Tweyman. The text of the Meditations on First Philosophy and the selection from the Replies to the Second Set of Objections in this edition are reprinted from the Haldane and Ross translation, first published in 1911, and reprinted with corrections in 1931, 1956, 1970. References are cited as M followed by page numbers. All references to Descartes’ other writings are taken from the Haldane and Ross two-volume edition of The Philosophical Works of Descartes, cited as HR, followed by volume and page number. References to The Philosophical Writings of Descartes translated by Cottingham, Stoothoff, and Murdoch are cited as CSM, followed by volume and page number.