文档介绍：THE ...................................... BLACKWELL PHILOSOPHER DICTIONARIES John Cottingham BlACI<WEll Copyright?John Cottingham 1993 The right ofjohn Cottingham to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1993 First published USA 1993 Blackwell Publishers 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX41JF UK 238 Main Street, Suite 501, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of critisism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way to trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cottingham,John, 1943- A Descartes dictionary I John Cottingham. p. em. --(The Blackwell philosopher dictionaries) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-17683-7 (acid-free paper): ￡.--ISBN 0- 631-18538-0 (pbk. :acid-free paper) : ￡ l. Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650--Dictionaries, indexes, etc. I. Title. II. Series. 1993 194--dc20 Typeset in Baskerville 10/11 pt by Acorn Bookwork, Salisbury, Wilts Printed in Great Britain by . Press (Padstow) Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paper 92-39483 CIP Preface Note on the use of this book A