The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... known to all ? -The infinite quâ infinite is un- known . For if , when I think of a chiliagon and have a confused representation of some figure , I do not have a distinct image of the chiliagon or know it , because I do not have its ...
... known to all ? -The infinite quâ infinite is un- known . For if , when I think of a chiliagon and have a confused representation of some figure , I do not have a distinct image of the chiliagon or know it , because I do not have its ...
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... known to me . ] I know that I exist ; I enquire who I , the known self , am ; it is quite certain that the knowledge of this self thus precisely taken , does not depend on those things of the existence of which I am not yet acquainted ...
... known to me . ] I know that I exist ; I enquire who I , the known self , am ; it is quite certain that the knowledge of this self thus precisely taken , does not depend on those things of the existence of which I am not yet acquainted ...
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... known than the body , cannot in my estimation be com- plied with . For it was not your project to prove that the human mind existed and that its existence was better known than that of the body , when really no one disputed its ...
... known than the body , cannot in my estimation be com- plied with . For it was not your project to prove that the human mind existed and that its existence was better known than that of the body , when really no one disputed its ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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