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Up to Descartes' time, and particularly during the Middle Ages, it had always been agreed that philosophy consisted in a transposition of reality into conceptual terms

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Étienne Gilson (13 June 1884–19 September 1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

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Alternative Names: Étienne Henry Gilson

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The mathematician always proceeds from thought to being or things. Consequently, critical idealism was born the day Descartes decided that the mathematical method must henceforth be the method for metaphysics.

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Reality can be grasped at levels of different depths. It is immediately given to us in a kind of block form, which is simply the "apprehended reality".

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