The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... merely external attribute of the thing and nothing belonging to its reality . For , as being seen ' is merely the direction of the act of vision towards the percipient so ' being thought ' or ' being objectively in the understanding ...
... merely external attribute of the thing and nothing belonging to its reality . For , as being seen ' is merely the direction of the act of vision towards the percipient so ' being thought ' or ' being objectively in the understanding ...
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... merely conceived and is nothing actual ( i.e. because it is merely an idea , and nothing situated outside the mind ) , it may be indeed conceived , but by no means caused1 ; i.e. it does not require a cause in order to exist outside the ...
... merely conceived and is nothing actual ( i.e. because it is merely an idea , and nothing situated outside the mind ) , it may be indeed conceived , but by no means caused1 ; i.e. it does not require a cause in order to exist outside the ...
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... merely a cognition which we had not , by an intellectual abstraction , rendered inadequate . It is one thing for a cognition to be entirely adequate , of which fact we could never be sure unless it were revealed by God ; it is quite ...
... merely a cognition which we had not , by an intellectual abstraction , rendered inadequate . It is one thing for a cognition to be entirely adequate , of which fact we could never be sure unless it were revealed by God ; it is quite ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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