Abstract
[The eighteenth century] no longer vies with Descartes and Malebranche, with Leibniz and Spinoza for the prize of systematic rigor and completeness. It seeks another concept of truth and philosophy whose function is to extend the boundaries of both and make them more elastic, concrete, and vital. The Enlightenment does not take the ideal of this mode of thinking from philosophical doctrines of the past; on the contrary, it constructs its ideal according to the model and pattern of contemporary natural science.1
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