The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 163
... idea should contain some one certain objective reality rather than another , it must without doubt derive it from some cause in which there is at least as much formal reality as this idea contains of objective reality . For if we ...
... idea should contain some one certain objective reality rather than another , it must without doubt derive it from some cause in which there is at least as much formal reality as this idea contains of objective reality . For if we ...
Page 166
... idea of a Being more perfect than myself , in comparison with which I should recognise the deficiencies of my nature ? And we cannot say that this idea of God is perhaps materially false and that consequently I can derive it from nought ...
... idea of a Being more perfect than myself , in comparison with which I should recognise the deficiencies of my nature ? And we cannot say that this idea of God is perhaps materially false and that consequently I can derive it from nought ...
Page 243
... idea , that name is universal . For example , when we see two stones , and without thinking further of their nature than to remark that there are two , we form in ourselves an idea of a certain number which we term the number of two ...
... idea , that name is universal . For example , when we see two stones , and without thinking further of their nature than to remark that there are two , we form in ourselves an idea of a certain number which we term the number of two ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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