The Philosophical Works of Descartes1931 |
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... knowledge is exceeded by the risk of diminishing it . Thus in accordance with the above maxim we reject all such merely probable knowledge and make it a rule to trust only what is completely known and incapable of being doubted . No ...
... knowledge is exceeded by the risk of diminishing it . Thus in accordance with the above maxim we reject all such merely probable knowledge and make it a rule to trust only what is completely known and incapable of being doubted . No ...
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... knowledge of the way in which the light thus passes through presupposes a knowledge of the nature of the action of light , to understand which finally we must know what a natural potency is in general , this last being the most absolute ...
... knowledge of the way in which the light thus passes through presupposes a knowledge of the nature of the action of light , to understand which finally we must know what a natural potency is in general , this last being the most absolute ...
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... knowledge of the truth of all things ; but it may be said that men have more wisdom or less according as they have more or less knowledge of the most important truths . And I think that in this there is nothing regarding which all the ...
... knowledge of the truth of all things ; but it may be said that men have more wisdom or less according as they have more or less knowledge of the most important truths . And I think that in this there is nothing regarding which all the ...
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The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Vol. 1 of 2: Rendered Into English ... Elizabeth S. Haldane No preview available - 2017 |
The Philosophical Works of Descartes, Vol. 1 of 2: Rendered Into English ... Elizabeth S. Haldane No preview available - 2015 |
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