Cartesian

One who follows the philosophy of Cartesianism.

Adjective

  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.
    • 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...
  2. Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.

Origin

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

Synonyms

Descartesean Descartesian Descartean Descartian

Derived

bicartesian Cartesian circle Cartesian coordinates Cartesian diver Cartesian doubt Cartesian equation Cartesian grid Cartesian plane Cartesian product Cartesian space Cartesian square cocartesian

Noun

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

Forms

Cartesians