The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 31
... consists the whole of human sagacity . It was for this reason that we insisted that method must be employed in studying those matters ; and this in those arts of less importance consists wholly in the close observation of the order ...
... consists the whole of human sagacity . It was for this reason that we insisted that method must be employed in studying those matters ; and this in those arts of less importance consists wholly in the close observation of the order ...
Page 56
... consists merely in so transmuting these ratios as to show clearly a uniformity1 between the matter sought for and something else already known . Next we must mark that nothing can be reduced to this unifor- mity1 , save that which ...
... consists merely in so transmuting these ratios as to show clearly a uniformity1 between the matter sought for and something else already known . Next we must mark that nothing can be reduced to this unifor- mity1 , save that which ...
Page 394
... consists all the inconveniences and embarrassments which the soul obtains from evil , and in the former that consists all the enjoyment of good which pertains to it . And thus , if we had no body , I should venture to say that we could ...
... consists all the inconveniences and embarrassments which the soul obtains from evil , and in the former that consists all the enjoyment of good which pertains to it . And thus , if we had no body , I should venture to say that we could ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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