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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... wish to draw any inference from them, it is useful to run them over in a continuous and uninterrupted act of thought, to reflect upon their relations to one another, and to grasp together distinctly a number of these propositions so far ...
... wish to draw any inference from them, it is useful to run them over in a continuous and uninterrupted act of thought, to reflect upon their relations to one another, and to grasp together distinctly a number of these propositions so far ...
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RENE DESCARTES. you wish to believe it that you pass that judgment. So while I confess that there is nothing that we wish about which we do not understand something, I deny that what we understand equals what we will; for we may wish ...
RENE DESCARTES. you wish to believe it that you pass that judgment. So while I confess that there is nothing that we wish about which we do not understand something, I deny that what we understand equals what we will; for we may wish ...
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... wish to extract the square root of a2+62, I write Va2+62; if I wish to extract the cube root of a3 — 63+a62, I write v/a3 — 63+a62, and similarly for other roots. Here it must be observed that by a2, b3, and similar expressions, I ...
... wish to extract the square root of a2+62, I write Va2+62; if I wish to extract the cube root of a3 — 63+a62, I write v/a3 — 63+a62, and similarly for other roots. Here it must be observed that by a2, b3, and similar expressions, I ...
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Discourse on the Method | 41 |
Of the Things which may be brought within | 75 |
that He exists | 81 |
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