The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... called a Substance ; neither do we have any other idea of substance itself , precisely taken , than that it is a thing in which this something that we perceive or which is present objectively in some of our ideas , exists formally or ...
... called a Substance ; neither do we have any other idea of substance itself , precisely taken , than that it is a thing in which this something that we perceive or which is present objectively in some of our ideas , exists formally or ...
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... called incomplete substances . But if they are said to be incomplete , because they cannot exist by themselves [ and unsupported by other things ] , I confess it seems to me to be a contradiction for them to be substances ; i.e. for ...
... called incomplete substances . But if they are said to be incomplete , because they cannot exist by themselves [ and unsupported by other things ] , I confess it seems to me to be a contradiction for them to be substances ; i.e. for ...
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... called both by the single name soul ; then , perceiving the distinction between nutrition and thinking , they called that which thinks mind , believing also that this was the chief part of the soul . But I , perceiving that the ...
... called both by the single name soul ; then , perceiving the distinction between nutrition and thinking , they called that which thinks mind , believing also that this was the chief part of the soul . But I , perceiving that the ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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