1. Cartesianism is the name given to the philosophical doctrine of Ren?Descartes.2. With Jacobus Triglandius and Jacobus Revius he attacked Cartesianism there. 3. He is credited with introducing Cartesianism into Dutch Arminian circles. 4. Cartesianism had been controversial for several years before 1656.5. Inquiries to establish certain axioms and mathematical proofs continued as Cartesianism throughout the 17th century. 6. In England, because of religious and other reasons, Cartesianism was not widely accepted. 7. Therefore, for Voetius, Cartesianism was primarily confronted with scriptural truth, not with Aristotelianism. 8. This resulted in an eclectic philosophy consisting mainly of elements of moderate Cartesianism and Lockean empiricism. 9. Other counter-currents of thought set in : Cartesianism in philosophy, Gallicanism, and Jansenism. 10. His closing years were embittered by the rise of Cartesianism , to which he was intensely opposed.
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