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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... understand anything wrongly; we are only said to understand awrong when we judge that we understand something better than we really understand it. You next deny certain truths about the in- determinateness of the will; and although they ...
... understand anything wrongly; we are only said to understand awrong when we judge that we understand something better than we really understand it. You next deny certain truths about the in- determinateness of the will; and although they ...
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... understand, and the mind, in so far as it uses reason, adjudges nothing as profitable to itself excepting that which conduces to understanding. Demonst. The endeavour after self-preservation is nothing but the essence of the object ...
... understand, and the mind, in so far as it uses reason, adjudges nothing as profitable to itself excepting that which conduces to understanding. Demonst. The endeavour after self-preservation is nothing but the essence of the object ...
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... understand things by the third kind of knowledge, the more it desires to understand them by this kind of knowledge. Demonst. This is evident; for in so faras we conceive the mind to be adapted to understand things by this kind of ...
... understand things by the third kind of knowledge, the more it desires to understand them by this kind of knowledge. Demonst. This is evident; for in so faras we conceive the mind to be adapted to understand things by this kind of ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method | 41 |
Of the Things which may be brought within | 75 |
that He exists | 81 |
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