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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... unless God give it a private revelation of the fact. But in order to have adequate knowledge of anything, it requires merely to have in itself a power of knowing what is adequate for that thing. And this can easily occur. But in order ...
... unless God give it a private revelation of the fact. But in order to have adequate knowledge of anything, it requires merely to have in itself a power of knowing what is adequate for that thing. And this can easily occur. But in order ...
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... unless we refer to some specific figure, and it does not give us a complete thing, unless it embraces the nature of the body) ; but we are cognisant of no specific difference belonging to the circle, unless at the same time we think of ...
... unless we refer to some specific figure, and it does not give us a complete thing, unless it embraces the nature of the body) ; but we are cognisant of no specific difference belonging to the circle, unless at the same time we think of ...
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... Unless you had been told of them you would never have thought of them. Of the animals? and of other things? I am practically certain that of these you could have had no idea unless they had entered your senses; just as you have no idea ...
... Unless you had been told of them you would never have thought of them. Of the animals? and of other things? I am practically certain that of these you could have had no idea unless they had entered your senses; just as you have no idea ...
Contents
Discourse on the Method | 41 |
Of the Things which may be brought within | 75 |
that He exists | 81 |
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