RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY1952 |
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... hence the images present to us when we are awake and using our senses are not accidents inhering in external objects, and fail to prove that such external objects do as a fact exist. And therefore, if we follow our senses without using ...
... hence the images present to us when we are awake and using our senses are not accidents inhering in external objects, and fail to prove that such external objects do as a fact exist. And therefore, if we follow our senses without using ...
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... hence I am a thing that thinks and not a body, and the body does not pertain to the knowledge of myself. But the only result that I can see this to give, is that a certain knowledge of myself be obtained without a knowledge of the body ...
... hence I am a thing that thinks and not a body, and the body does not pertain to the knowledge of myself. But the only result that I can see this to give, is that a certain knowledge of myself be obtained without a knowledge of the body ...
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... hence there is a mutual relation between cause and effect. But a mutual relation can be possessed only by two things. Again, it is merely absurd to conceive of a thing as receiving existence and yet possessing that very existence before ...
... hence there is a mutual relation between cause and effect. But a mutual relation can be possessed only by two things. Again, it is merely absurd to conceive of a thing as receiving existence and yet possessing that very existence before ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method | 41 |
Of the Things which may be brought within | 75 |
that He exists | 81 |
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