The Philosophical Works of Descartes: Rendered Into English, Volume 2Dover Publications, 1934 - Enlightenment |
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... triangle apart from a square , and so forth , and that hence these things have no true and immutable nature . But if I think of the triangle or the square ( I pass by for the present the lion and the horse , because their natures are ...
... triangle apart from a square , and so forth , and that hence these things have no true and immutable nature . But if I think of the triangle or the square ( I pass by for the present the lion and the horse , because their natures are ...
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... triangle may be demonstrated " . If the triangle exists nowhere at all , I do not understand how it can have any nature ; for that which exists nowhere does not exist . Hence it has no existence or nature . The triangle in the mind ...
... triangle may be demonstrated " . If the triangle exists nowhere at all , I do not understand how it can have any nature ; for that which exists nowhere does not exist . Hence it has no existence or nature . The triangle in the mind ...
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... triangle of yours and its nature . For the triangle is indeed a sort of mental rule which you employ in discovering whether something deserves to be called a triangle . But there is no necessity for us on that account to say that such a ...
... triangle of yours and its nature . For the triangle is indeed a sort of mental rule which you employ in discovering whether something deserves to be called a triangle . But there is no necessity for us on that account to say that such a ...
Contents
Reply to the First Objections | 9 |
Second Set of Objections | 24 |
Reply to Second Objections | 30 |
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