The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 115
... animal spirits therein contained should have the power to move the members , just as the heads of animals , a little while after decapitation , are still observed to move and bite the earth , notwithstanding that they are no longer ...
... animal spirits therein contained should have the power to move the members , just as the heads of animals , a little while after decapitation , are still observed to move and bite the earth , notwithstanding that they are no longer ...
Page 317
... animal ? The second , what is reasonable And further , if , to explain what an animal is he were to reply that it is a living thing possessed of sensations , that a living thing is an animate body , that a body is a corporeal substance ...
... animal ? The second , what is reasonable And further , if , to explain what an animal is he were to reply that it is a living thing possessed of sensations , that a living thing is an animate body , that a body is a corporeal substance ...
Page 347
... animal spirits , nerves , and even the blood , which , participating in the impressions of the spirits , can carry them by the arteries into all the members . And recollecting what has been said above about the machine of our body ...
... animal spirits , nerves , and even the blood , which , participating in the impressions of the spirits , can carry them by the arteries into all the members . And recollecting what has been said above about the machine of our body ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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