The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... material for error . But my critic , taking ideas in their formal aspect , contends that falsity never resides in them . The second is , that God is self - originated in a positive sense , the sense implying as it were derivation from a ...
... material for error . But my critic , taking ideas in their formal aspect , contends that falsity never resides in them . The second is , that God is self - originated in a positive sense , the sense implying as it were derivation from a ...
Page 160
... material and generating animals of various kinds . Nay , even the parent from whom , we grant , his offspring derives something material , acquires that , not from an efficient , but from a material principle . Your objection , that the ...
... material and generating animals of various kinds . Nay , even the parent from whom , we grant , his offspring derives something material , acquires that , not from an efficient , but from a material principle . Your objection , that the ...
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... material rather than of the efficient cause1 ; for the perfection of the form can never be understood to pre - exist in the material but only in the efficient cause . So too with your doctrine that the formal reality of an idea is a ...
... material rather than of the efficient cause1 ; for the perfection of the form can never be understood to pre - exist in the material but only in the efficient cause . So too with your doctrine that the formal reality of an idea is a ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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