The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 1The University Press, 1975 - Philosophy, French |
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... greater , less , or equal , which separates all the others from this . Although this proposition seems to teach nothing very new , it contains , nevertheless , the chief secret of method , and none in the whole of this treatise is of ...
... greater , less , or equal , which separates all the others from this . Although this proposition seems to teach nothing very new , it contains , nevertheless , the chief secret of method , and none in the whole of this treatise is of ...
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... greater when the wax is melted , greater when it is boiled , and greater still when the heat increases ; and I should not conceive [ clearly ] according to truth what wax is , if I did not think that even this piece that we are ...
... greater when the wax is melted , greater when it is boiled , and greater still when the heat increases ; and I should not conceive [ clearly ] according to truth what wax is , if I did not think that even this piece that we are ...
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... greater in God than in me , both by reason of the knowledge and the power which , conjoined with it , render it stronger and more efficacious , and by reason of its object , inasmuch as in God it extends to a great many things ; it ...
... greater in God than in me , both by reason of the knowledge and the power which , conjoined with it , render it stronger and more efficacious , and by reason of its object , inasmuch as in God it extends to a great many things ; it ...
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