The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... doubt whether I have a body , nay , whether any body exists at all ; yet I have no right to doubt whether I am , or exist , so long as I doubt or think . Hence I , who doubt and think , am not a body ; otherwise in enter- taining doubt ...
... doubt whether I have a body , nay , whether any body exists at all ; yet I have no right to doubt whether I am , or exist , so long as I doubt or think . Hence I , who doubt and think , am not a body ; otherwise in enter- taining doubt ...
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... doubt whether it was round or square or of some other figure . Similarly that feeling of pain , which appears still to exist in the foot or in the hand after these members have been cut off , may on occasion cause deception in those ...
... doubt whether it was round or square or of some other figure . Similarly that feeling of pain , which appears still to exist in the foot or in the hand after these members have been cut off , may on occasion cause deception in those ...
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... doubt which , I have insisted , is metaphysical , hyperbolical and not to be trans- ferred to the sphere of the practical needs of life by any means . It was of this doubt also that I said the very least ground of suspicion was a ...
... doubt which , I have insisted , is metaphysical , hyperbolical and not to be trans- ferred to the sphere of the practical needs of life by any means . It was of this doubt also that I said the very least ground of suspicion was a ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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