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Page 83
... true wait till doomsday , or till such time as our intellect and senses may have raked in enough evidence - this command , I say , seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . If the religious hypothesis were ...
... true wait till doomsday , or till such time as our intellect and senses may have raked in enough evidence - this command , I say , seems to me the queerest idol ever manufactured in the philosophic cave . If the religious hypothesis were ...
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... true , i.e. , not illusory . It would follow from this admission that those general things at least , i.e. , eyes , head , hands , body , are not imaginary things but things really existent . We are bound , at the same time , to confess ...
... true , i.e. , not illusory . It would follow from this admission that those general things at least , i.e. , eyes , head , hands , body , are not imaginary things but things really existent . We are bound , at the same time , to confess ...
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... true if it could ever happen that I should clearly and distinctly perceive to be true something which was in fact false . Accordingly , I can establish as a general rule that all things which I perceive very clearly and very distinctly are ...
... true if it could ever happen that I should clearly and distinctly perceive to be true something which was in fact false . Accordingly , I can establish as a general rule that all things which I perceive very clearly and very distinctly are ...
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