The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... less a cause is required than that needed to produce it at the first . III . A thing , and likewise an actually existing perfection belonging to anything , can never have nothing , or a non - existent thing , as the cause of its ...
... less a cause is required than that needed to produce it at the first . III . A thing , and likewise an actually existing perfection belonging to anything , can never have nothing , or a non - existent thing , as the cause of its ...
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... less : viz . in the way in which substance is greater than mode ; and if there be real qualities or incomplete substances , they are things to a greater extent than modes are , but less than complete substances . Finally , if there be ...
... less : viz . in the way in which substance is greater than mode ; and if there be real qualities or incomplete substances , they are things to a greater extent than modes are , but less than complete substances . Finally , if there be ...
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... less to be excused in favouring the cause of the brutes and wishing to ascribe thought to them not less than to men , than the Workman in attempting to arrogate to himself and his like a skill in architecture no less than that possessed ...
... less to be excused in favouring the cause of the brutes and wishing to ascribe thought to them not less than to men , than the Workman in attempting to arrogate to himself and his like a skill in architecture no less than that possessed ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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