The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Volume 1University Press, 1931 - Philosophy |
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Page 159
... speaking , truth or error to be found . Of my thoughts some are , so to speak , images of the things , and to these alone is the title ' idea ' properly applied ; examples are my thought of a man or of a chimera , of heaven , of an ...
... speaking , truth or error to be found . Of my thoughts some are , so to speak , images of the things , and to these alone is the title ' idea ' properly applied ; examples are my thought of a man or of a chimera , of heaven , of an ...
Page 167
... speaking is nothing , but only by a being which is formal or actual . To speak the truth , I see nothing in all that I have just said which by the light of nature is not manifest to anyone who desires to think attentively on the subject ...
... speaking is nothing , but only by a being which is formal or actual . To speak the truth , I see nothing in all that I have just said which by the light of nature is not manifest to anyone who desires to think attentively on the subject ...
Page 327
... speak by gradations , to those more remote and complicated . Who now will doubt that what I have set forth as first principle is the first of the things which we might come to know with the help of a method ? It is certain that we ...
... speak by gradations , to those more remote and complicated . Who now will doubt that what I have set forth as first principle is the first of the things which we might come to know with the help of a method ? It is certain that we ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason | 81 |
The Search after Truth | 212 |
Index | 432 |
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