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(1993) Scientific philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.
Adopting a central feature of Stoic epistemology, Descartes treated belief as action that might be undertaken wisely or rashly, and enunciated a method for avoiding false belief, a discipline of the will "to include nothing more in my judgments than what presented itself to my mind with such clarity and distinctness that I would have no occasion to put it in doubt".1 He called such acts of the will "affirmations", i.e., acts of accepting sentences or propositions as true.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2964-2_8
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Jeffrey, R. C. (1993)., From logical empiricism to radical probabilism, in F. Stadler (ed.), Scientific philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 121-130.