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Oneness of God

by mun23, February 08, 2014

Does Decartes say anything about the Oneness of God?

background info

by kimmie7272, March 05, 2014

I am writing a Paper on Rene Descartes and i just was wondering how accurate everything is because on othe cites it says that he attened the Jesuite college at the age of 6 not 8.
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