The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... idea of the sun , but an inference by argument that the idea of the sun would be many times larger if we viewed the sun from a much nearer distance . But at different times the ideas of the sun may differ , e.g. when one looks at it ...
... idea of the sun , but an inference by argument that the idea of the sun would be many times larger if we viewed the sun from a much nearer distance . But at different times the ideas of the sun may differ , e.g. when one looks at it ...
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... idea with judgment . For what is the idea of cold ? It is cold itself in so far as it is objectively in the understanding . But if cold is a privation , it cannot exist objectively in the mind by the instrumentality of an idea , the ...
... idea with judgment . For what is the idea of cold ? It is cold itself in so far as it is objectively in the understanding . But if cold is a privation , it cannot exist objectively in the mind by the instrumentality of an idea , the ...
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... Idea be in the mind , without all the single things being there also , together with their genera , from which it abstracts and forms a conception which is proper to none of the particulars and yet agrees with them all ? If the Idea of ...
... Idea be in the mind , without all the single things being there also , together with their genera , from which it abstracts and forms a conception which is proper to none of the particulars and yet agrees with them all ? If the Idea of ...
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Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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