The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... figure in isolation from the object which has the figure ; nor finally can I feign that anything incapable of having figure can possess motion , or that what is incapable of movement has figure . So it is also that neither can I ...
... figure in isolation from the object which has the figure ; nor finally can I feign that anything incapable of having figure can possess motion , or that what is incapable of movement has figure . So it is also that neither can I ...
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... figure or as after the fashion of a rectilinear figure with an infinite number of sides , I should attach no force to this proof , because properly it holds not of the sphere as a curvilinear figure , but applies to it merely as a ...
... figure or as after the fashion of a rectilinear figure with an infinite number of sides , I should attach no force to this proof , because properly it holds not of the sphere as a curvilinear figure , but applies to it merely as a ...
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... figure with a thousand angles , but yet cannot by application or an effort of attention , discover it , and have it , as it were , present before you and discern all its angles individually ' , but are as confused about it as about the ...
... figure with a thousand angles , but yet cannot by application or an effort of attention , discover it , and have it , as it were , present before you and discern all its angles individually ' , but are as confused about it as about the ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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