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work_5yjbl4ojrfcf7mcingmwe76vdy	Finnur Dellsén	Certainty and Explanation in Descartes's Philosophy of Science	2017	42	.pdf	application/pdf	12208	641	59	Title Certainty and Explanation in Descartes' Philosophy of Science discussion of scientific theories and explanations in the Principles of Philosophy. In the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes purports to have given scientific explanations of an into the neat structure of principles, laws, mechanism, and phenomena that Descartes usually mistake to think that Descartes required certainty of the scientific explanations that he of the Principles, Descartes explicitly considers the possibility that his explanations may the tension between Descartes' requirement of certainty and his speculative explanations Descartes's explanations but the observed natural phenomena that serve as the requirement of certainty for scientific theories and his speculative explanations in the argue, that Descartes' conception of scientific explanations differs significantly from On Descartes' conception of explanation, whenever A explains B it follows what the purpose is, for Descartes, of finding scientific explanations if the theories used in While the phenomena that Descartes attempts to explain in the Principles are 	./cache/work_5yjbl4ojrfcf7mcingmwe76vdy.pdf	./txt/work_5yjbl4ojrfcf7mcingmwe76vdy.txt