The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 37
... figure from the sound , the odour , and the savour , as the case may be . It is exceedingly helpful to conceive all those matters thus , for nothing falls more readily under sense than figure , which can be touched and seen . Moreover ...
... figure from the sound , the odour , and the savour , as the case may be . It is exceedingly helpful to conceive all those matters thus , for nothing falls more readily under sense than figure , which can be touched and seen . Moreover ...
Page 41
... figure is the limit of an extended thing , conceiving by the term limit something more universal than by the term figure , since we can talk of a limit of duration , a limit of motion , and so on . But our contention is right , for then ...
... figure is the limit of an extended thing , conceiving by the term limit something more universal than by the term figure , since we can talk of a limit of duration , a limit of motion , and so on . But our contention is right , for then ...
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... figure , yet it is very evident that this figure is not a chiliagon , since it in no way differs from that which I represent to myself when I think of a myriagon or any other many - sided figure ; nor does it serve my purpose in ...
... figure , yet it is very evident that this figure is not a chiliagon , since it in no way differs from that which I represent to myself when I think of a myriagon or any other many - sided figure ; nor does it serve my purpose in ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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