The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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... certain machines of theirs . Possibly these machines were quite simple , and yet the ignorant and wonder - loving multitude might easily have lauded them as miraculous . But I am convinced that certain primary germs of truth implanted ...
... certain machines of theirs . Possibly these machines were quite simple , and yet the ignorant and wonder - loving multitude might easily have lauded them as miraculous . But I am convinced that certain primary germs of truth implanted ...
Page 149
... certain , or at least , if I can do nothing else , until I have learned for certain that there is nothing in the world that is certain . Archimedes , in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place , and transport it ...
... certain , or at least , if I can do nothing else , until I have learned for certain that there is nothing in the world that is certain . Archimedes , in order that he might draw the terrestrial globe out of its place , and transport it ...
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... certain , and was content to set down the things that seemed to him to be probable , for this end adopting certain principles whereby he tried to account for other things . Aristotle , on the other hand , had less candour , and although ...
... certain , and was content to set down the things that seemed to him to be probable , for this end adopting certain principles whereby he tried to account for other things . Aristotle , on the other hand , had less candour , and although ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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