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- See E. Gilson, Le Discours de la Méthode, texte et commentaire (Paris: Vrin, 1962), p. 255. References to Descartes are to Euvres philosophiques, ed. F. Alquié, 3 vols (Paris: Gamier, 1963), and show volume and page number.
- See H. Gouhier, Descartes: Le Discours de la Méthode' (Paris: Vrin, 1973).
- H. Gouhier, 'La résistance au vrai et le probleme cartesien dune philosophie sans rhétorique' pp. 85–97, in Retorica e Barocco, Atti del III Congress° Intemazionale di Studi humanistici, (Rome: Fratelli Bocca, 1956); P. France, Rhetoric and Truth in France, Descartes to Diderot (Oxford: OUP, 1972), p. 67.
- C. Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, Traité de l'Argumentation (Brussels: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1988), pp. 483–84.
- See S. Romanowski, L'Illusion chez Descartes (Paris: Klincksieck, 1974), and D. Judovitz, Subjectivity and representation in Descartes (Cambridge: CUP, 1988).
- Cf. Alquié, I, 88, who points out that Descartes uses intuition in the Latin sense of intueri, to see. Note also the high frequency of voir (62 times).
- Cahné's dissociation of style and content has also been criticized by F. Cossuta, Descartes et l'argumentation philosophique (Paris: Vrin, 1996), pp. 15–21.
- Compare Arnauld and Nicole, La Logique ou l'Art de Penser, 5th ed. (Paris, 1683), I, 4: 'le néant ne peut Etre cause d'aucune chose.'
- See L. Marin, La Critique du Discours, (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1975), p. 101, who sees Descartes's language as based on cause and effect, just like his physics.
- E. Boutroux: La philosophie allemande au XVIIe siècle, (Paris: Vrin, 1948), p. 20.
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