Descartes: Selected Philosophical WritingsThis book is planned as the definitive one-volume reader for all English-speaking students of Descartes. |
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action added in French arguments Aristotle assert attributes belong body brain Broadsheet called capable cause certainty chiliagon clear and distinct clearly and distinctly clearly perceive colour conceive concept consider contained corporeal substance corporeal things deceived deduced Democritus depend Descartes discovered distinctly perceive distinguish doubt Elizabeth of Bohemia error essence everything example existence existence of God explained extension external fact faculty false falsity follows French version gland go wrong happens heat hence idea images imagination inference infinite intellect intuition judge judgement kind knowledge material things matter means Meditations merely mind modes motion move movement muscles natural light nerves never objects observed Optics pain passions philosophers possess preconceived opinions principles produce rarefaction reality reason recognize regard right angles rules sensations senses sensory awareness sensory perceptions shape simply soul spirits square suppose supremely perfect term thinking thing thought triangle true truth various volition