The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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Page 88
... given myself existence , I should have given myself also all those perfections , the ideas of which I perceive in myself1 . But his theological critic acutely replies : - ' self - originated ' should be taken not in a positive but in a ...
... given myself existence , I should have given myself also all those perfections , the ideas of which I perceive in myself1 . But his theological critic acutely replies : - ' self - originated ' should be taken not in a positive but in a ...
Page 178
... given you a greater faculty of knowledge than He has given you ; and however skilful a workman you represent Him to be , you should not , for all that , consider that He was bound to have placed in each and all of his works the ...
... given you a greater faculty of knowledge than He has given you ; and however skilful a workman you represent Him to be , you should not , for all that , consider that He was bound to have placed in each and all of his works the ...
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... given only by the imagination . But let it be given or let rather us feign that in the brain there is given a Mathematical point , to which you are united , and in which you exist . Now , see how useless a fiction this will turn out to ...
... given only by the imagination . But let it be given or let rather us feign that in the brain there is given a Mathematical point , to which you are united , and in which you exist . Now , see how useless a fiction this will turn out to ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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