Cartesian

See also: cartesian

English

Etymology

From the New Latin Cartesiānus, from Cartesius (“René Descartes”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /kɑː(ɹ) ˈtiːziən/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /kɑɹˈti.ʒən/
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Adjective

Cartesian (not comparable)

  1. Of, or pertaining to, Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
    • 2014, Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science:
      Others within the Cartesian tradition took the idea of a light-bearing medium in quite different directions. For instance, in 1690 Christiaan Huygens considered light to be a sequence of pulses traveling at a finite velocity within the medium.
    • 2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 140:
      How would a program implementation view be compatible with Cartesian dualism?
  2. (mathematics, cartography) Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.

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Noun

Cartesian (plural Cartesians)

  1. One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.
  2. (rare) The Chartreux cat.

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