The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... consequently you would apprehend what is its leading feature , i.e. infinity . But your thought always stops short at something finite , and you talk of the infinite only because you do not perceive what is beyond your perceptions ...
... consequently you would apprehend what is its leading feature , i.e. infinity . But your thought always stops short at something finite , and you talk of the infinite only because you do not perceive what is beyond your perceptions ...
Page 179
... consequently is the source of a power which , so to speak , lacks power . Thus the defect in the act is , it seems , to be referred not so much to that power which lacks power as to its Author who created it with this lack of power and ...
... consequently is the source of a power which , so to speak , lacks power . Thus the defect in the act is , it seems , to be referred not so much to that power which lacks power as to its Author who created it with this lack of power and ...
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... Consequently for the sake of avoiding ambiguity I said that I spoke of that superficies which , being only a mode , can be no part of body ; for a body is a substance , and a mode cannot be a part of substance . Yet I did not deny that ...
... Consequently for the sake of avoiding ambiguity I said that I spoke of that superficies which , being only a mode , can be no part of body ; for a body is a substance , and a mode cannot be a part of substance . Yet I did not deny that ...
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Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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