The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 141
... mind cannot be conceived of excepting as indivisible . For we are not able to conceive of the half of a mind as we can do of the smallest of all bodies ; so that we see that not only are their natures different but even in some respects ...
... mind cannot be conceived of excepting as indivisible . For we are not able to conceive of the half of a mind as we can do of the smallest of all bodies ; so that we see that not only are their natures different but even in some respects ...
Page 196
... mind and body , inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible , and the mind is entirely indivisible . For , as a matter of fact , when I consider the mind , that is to say , myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking thing , I cannot ...
... mind and body , inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible , and the mind is entirely indivisible . For , as a matter of fact , when I consider the mind , that is to say , myself inasmuch as I am only a thinking thing , I cannot ...
Page 440
... mind existed , because , from the very fact that we doubted , it followed that our mind existed , but that meantime we might doubt whether any material things existed ; whence I deduced and demonstrated that mind was clearly perceived ...
... mind existed , because , from the very fact that we doubted , it followed that our mind existed , but that meantime we might doubt whether any material things existed ; whence I deduced and demonstrated that mind was clearly perceived ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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