The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 256
... bodies which recede in this way would on this account lose what makes them bodies . It follows from this that the nature of body does not consist in hardness . The same reason shows us that weight , colour , and all the other qualities ...
... bodies which recede in this way would on this account lose what makes them bodies . It follows from this that the nature of body does not consist in hardness . The same reason shows us that weight , colour , and all the other qualities ...
Page 259
... body ; and the difference between them consists only in the fact that in body we consider extension as particular and conceive it to change just as body changes ; in space , on the contrary , we attribute to extension a generic unity ...
... body ; and the difference between them consists only in the fact that in body we consider extension as particular and conceive it to change just as body changes ; in space , on the contrary , we attribute to extension a generic unity ...
Page 440
... body . This argument he thinks to explode by saying that ' it only proves that , so long as we doubt about the body , we cannot term mind a mode of body ' . Here he shows that he is utterly ignorant of what it is that philosophers term ...
... body . This argument he thinks to explode by saying that ' it only proves that , so long as we doubt about the body , we cannot term mind a mode of body ' . Here he shows that he is utterly ignorant of what it is that philosophers term ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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