Philosophical Works, Volume 2The University Press, 1967 - Philosophy, Modern |
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... POSSESS THIS IDEA , OURSELVES EXIST . Demonstration . If I had the power of conserving my own existence , I should have had a proportionately greater power of giving myself the perfections that I lack ( Axx . VIII and IX ) ; for they ...
... POSSESS THIS IDEA , OURSELVES EXIST . Demonstration . If I had the power of conserving my own existence , I should have had a proportionately greater power of giving myself the perfections that I lack ( Axx . VIII and IX ) ; for they ...
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... possessing . This reasoning may be otherwise couched thus : —no one gives what he does not possess ; hence no one can give himself existence unless he already possess it , but , if he already possess it , why should he give it to ...
... possessing . This reasoning may be otherwise couched thus : —no one gives what he does not possess ; hence no one can give himself existence unless he already possess it , but , if he already possess it , why should he give it to ...
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... possesses any objective reality . Secondly , even though it should have been admitted that it does possess some , we must deny that it has more than the ideas of accidents possess , since everything that owns a reality of this sort ...
... possesses any objective reality . Secondly , even though it should have been admitted that it does possess some , we must deny that it has more than the ideas of accidents possess , since everything that owns a reality of this sort ...
Contents
THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | 1 |
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
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