The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... objects are wont to be there . Thus , for example , if someone asks what feature in the sun's existence it is to ... objects are wont to exist there . Hence the idea of the sun will be the sun itself existing in the mind , not indeed ...
... objects are wont to be there . Thus , for example , if someone asks what feature in the sun's existence it is to ... objects are wont to exist there . Hence the idea of the sun will be the sun itself existing in the mind , not indeed ...
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... objects . For by the word God I mean a substance , i.e. I understand that God exists ( not by means of an idea but by reasoning ) . This substance is infinite ( i.e. I can neither conceive nor imagine its boundaries or extreme parts ...
... objects . For by the word God I mean a substance , i.e. I understand that God exists ( not by means of an idea but by reasoning ) . This substance is infinite ( i.e. I can neither conceive nor imagine its boundaries or extreme parts ...
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... objects at all . And you seem thence to infer that although there exist in you the Ideas of things said to be external , those Ideas nevertheless do not prove that the things exist , since they do not necessarily proceed from them , but ...
... objects at all . And you seem thence to infer that although there exist in you the Ideas of things said to be external , those Ideas nevertheless do not prove that the things exist , since they do not necessarily proceed from them , but ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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