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... extended . My conception is entirely the same if I say extension occupies place , as when I say that which is extended occupies place . Yet that is no reason why , in order to avoid ambiguity , it should be better to use the term that ...
... extended . My conception is entirely the same if I say extension occupies place , as when I say that which is extended occupies place . Yet that is no reason why , in order to avoid ambiguity , it should be better to use the term that ...
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... extended thing ; as everything that we find in mind is but so many diverse forms of thinking . Thus , for example , we cannot conceive figure but as an extended thing , nor movement but as in an extended space ; so imagination , feeling ...
... extended thing ; as everything that we find in mind is but so many diverse forms of thinking . Thus , for example , we cannot conceive figure but as an extended thing , nor movement but as in an extended space ; so imagination , feeling ...
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hence we must conclude that there is an object extended in length , breadth , and depth , and possessing all those properties which we clearly perceive to pertain to extended objects . And this extended object is called by us either ...
hence we must conclude that there is an object extended in length , breadth , and depth , and possessing all those properties which we clearly perceive to pertain to extended objects . And this extended object is called by us either ...
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