Complicating an understanding of such passages is that Descartes scholarship is divided on whether to attribute to him some version of an indirect theory of perception, or instead some version of a direct theory.
But it was his emphasis on biological descent that prompted Ron Merkel QC to attribute to him notions of racial identity akin to eugenics.
30.. In this document, Arnauld assembles various passages from St. Thomas in order to attribute to him the theory of grâce efficace par elle-même.
Some three hundred works have been attributed to him, of which one third have been printed and perhaps not more than fifteen are genuine.
Over forty writings are attributed to him, of which the musical treatise Sri Tatwanidhi and a poetical romance called Saugandika Parinaya written in two versions, a sangatya and a drama, are most well known.
The Scriptores historiae Augustae, a collection of biographies of the emperors, attributes to him a complete program of reforms favourable to the Senate, but these reforms are not mentioned elsewhere.
He has said he believes it was because of statements attributed to him relating to the use of the term "Merry Christmas" and to the Pledge of Allegiance, which he denied having made.
In a way, the lack of patriotism attributed to him is partly a natural interpretation of someone who, like Argerich, has developed his genius abroad and never been involved in local arguments.
And a few steps away in the gallery one can find an example of writing attributed to him: a handscroll carrying draft versions of Chinese poems, with smudges, erasures and corrections still intact.
In 1970, Seyyed Hossein Nasr edited fourteen of Suhrawardi's Persian texts (two attributed to him), many of which are allegorical or mystical in nature (Suhrawardi 1993c).
