The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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... knowledge of the way in which the light thus passes through presupposes a knowledge of the nature of the action of light , to understand which finally we must know what a natural potency is in general , this last being the most absolute ...
... knowledge of the way in which the light thus passes through presupposes a knowledge of the nature of the action of light , to understand which finally we must know what a natural potency is in general , this last being the most absolute ...
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... knowledge of the truth of all things ; but it may be said that men have more wisdom or less according as they have more or less knowledge of the most important truths . And I think that in this there is nothing regarding which all the ...
... knowledge of the truth of all things ; but it may be said that men have more wisdom or less according as they have more or less knowledge of the most important truths . And I think that in this there is nothing regarding which all the ...
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... knowledge , and discovering all the means by which he may carry his knowledge to the highest point to which it can possibly attain . In this work I propose to show what these means are , and to bring to light the true riches of our ...
... knowledge , and discovering all the means by which he may carry his knowledge to the highest point to which it can possibly attain . In this work I propose to show what these means are , and to bring to light the true riches of our ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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