The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... matters be obscure with which our faith is said to deal , nevertheless this is understood to hold only of the fact or matter of which it treats , and it is not meant that the formal reason on account of which we assent to matters of ...
... matters be obscure with which our faith is said to deal , nevertheless this is understood to hold only of the fact or matter of which it treats , and it is not meant that the formal reason on account of which we assent to matters of ...
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... matter , etc .; you object : if you are ignorant , if you do not dispute the matter , why do you assume that you are none of those things1 ? But here it is false that I have assumed something of which I was ignorant ; for plainly , on ...
... matter , etc .; you object : if you are ignorant , if you do not dispute the matter , why do you assume that you are none of those things1 ? But here it is false that I have assumed something of which I was ignorant ; for plainly , on ...
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... matter , have no legitimacy or validity unless they prove that the matter must always be in doubt . To believe , to say , to affirm the opposite of what is doubtful3 . When I said that doubtful matters should sometimes be treated as ...
... matter , have no legitimacy or validity unless they prove that the matter must always be in doubt . To believe , to say , to affirm the opposite of what is doubtful3 . When I said that doubtful matters should sometimes be treated as ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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