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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“For Who ever doubted but that a _Frenchman_ and a _German_ may argue about the _same Things_, tho they use very _Differing Words”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Answer to Objection IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
Descartes's reply to Hobbes's claim that reasoning is a concatenation of names rather than of things signified.
Citation: "For Who ever doubted but that a _Frenchman_ and a _German_ may argue about the _same Things_, tho they use very _Differing Words" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Answer to Objection IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q12)
