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Suárez's Influence on Descartes's Theory of Eternal Truths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2003

AMY KAROFSKY
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Hofstra University
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There is a philosophical problem, what I will call the problem of eternal truths, that can be stated as follows: If an unactualized, possible essence has no being and is, hence, absolutely nothing, then what grounds the eternal and necessary truth of propositions that purport to be about them? If there were no men, what would ground the necessary truth, “Man is a rational animal”? And what grounded the truth of that proposition prior to the creation of the world? (If it was in fact true at that moment?)

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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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