The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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... known with certainty , though not by themselves evident , but only deduced from true and known principles by the continuous and uninterrupted action of a mind ' that has a clear vision of each step in the process . It is in a similar ...
... known with certainty , though not by themselves evident , but only deduced from true and known principles by the continuous and uninterrupted action of a mind ' that has a clear vision of each step in the process . It is in a similar ...
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... known to be such that the former are determined by the latter . This determination also is such that if , recognizing it , we consider the terms which first present themselves and reckon them even though unknown among the known , and ...
... known to be such that the former are determined by the latter . This determination also is such that if , recognizing it , we consider the terms which first present themselves and reckon them even though unknown among the known , and ...
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... known of God is manifest in them , ' it seems as though we were shown that all that which can be known of God may be made manifest by means which are not derived from anywhere but from ourselves , and from the simple consideration of ...
... known of God is manifest in them , ' it seems as though we were shown that all that which can be known of God may be made manifest by means which are not derived from anywhere but from ourselves , and from the simple consideration of ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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