The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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... able to detect some more easily than others , and which these are . Thus , when we come to attack some definite problem we shall be able to judge what previous questions it were best to settle first . For example , if it comes into my ...
... able to detect some more easily than others , and which these are . Thus , when we come to attack some definite problem we shall be able to judge what previous questions it were best to settle first . For example , if it comes into my ...
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... able to restrain my desires nor to remain content , if I had not followed a road by which , thinking that I should be certain to be able to acquire all the knowledge of which I was capable , I also thought I should likewise be certain ...
... able to restrain my desires nor to remain content , if I had not followed a road by which , thinking that I should be certain to be able to acquire all the knowledge of which I was capable , I also thought I should likewise be certain ...
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... able to utter words just like ourselves , and yet they cannot speak as we do , that is , so as to give ' evidence that they think of what they say . On the other hand , men who , being born deaf and dumb , are in the same degree , or ...
... able to utter words just like ourselves , and yet they cannot speak as we do , that is , so as to give ' evidence that they think of what they say . On the other hand , men who , being born deaf and dumb , are in the same degree , or ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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