The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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... given numbers . I go forward likewise and examine whether , when the numbers 3 and 24 were given , it would have been equally easy to determine one of the two intermediate proportionals , viz . 6 and 12 . But here still another sort of ...
... given numbers . I go forward likewise and examine whether , when the numbers 3 and 24 were given , it would have been equally easy to determine one of the two intermediate proportionals , viz . 6 and 12 . But here still another sort of ...
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... given dividend , we have on this occasion an example of the indirect or inverted order . For the only way to discover B , the quaesitum , is to divide the given ab by a , which is also given . The case is the same if the proposition is ...
... given dividend , we have on this occasion an example of the indirect or inverted order . For the only way to discover B , the quaesitum , is to divide the given ab by a , which is also given . The case is the same if the proposition is ...
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... given me an intelligence which is more powerful , or a natural light which is stronger than that which I have received from Him , since it is proper to the finite understanding not to comprehend a multitude of things , and it is proper ...
... given me an intelligence which is more powerful , or a natural light which is stronger than that which I have received from Him , since it is proper to the finite understanding not to comprehend a multitude of things , and it is proper ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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