The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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Page 109
... employ the word ' cause ' in matters of divinity , where they treat of the procession of persons in the Holy Trinity , and that where the Greeks used atriov and apxy indifferently , they have preferred to employ the word principium ...
... employ the word ' cause ' in matters of divinity , where they treat of the procession of persons in the Holy Trinity , and that where the Greeks used atriov and apxy indifferently , they have preferred to employ the word principium ...
Page 175
... employ final causes in an investigation into Physical things , you act in a way which perhaps in another situation would have been quite correct . But in treating of God , it is really to be feared that you have rejected the principal ...
... employ final causes in an investigation into Physical things , you act in a way which perhaps in another situation would have been quite correct . But in treating of God , it is really to be feared that you have rejected the principal ...
Page 330
... employs . It is forsooth possessed of none , though at the same time it removes our previous instruments ; and it brings none to occupy their place . Other arts of this kind employ a rule , a level and a plumb line ; and employing these ...
... employs . It is forsooth possessed of none , though at the same time it removes our previous instruments ; and it brings none to occupy their place . Other arts of this kind employ a rule , a level and a plumb line ; and employing these ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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