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... four sides is incorrigible for us and can be known incorrigibly . That proposition is incorrigible for anyone who has the relevant concepts because ( 1 ) it is logically impossible for a man to believe attentively that all squares have four ...
... four sides is incorrigible for us and can be known incorrigibly . That proposition is incorrigible for anyone who has the relevant concepts because ( 1 ) it is logically impossible for a man to believe attentively that all squares have four ...
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... four sides is logically equivalent to the proposition that “ All squares have four sides " is incorrigible for anyone . Hence the proposition about the square can be known incorrigibly by any- one . In order for a man to know ...
... four sides is logically equivalent to the proposition that “ All squares have four sides " is incorrigible for anyone . Hence the proposition about the square can be known incorrigibly by any- one . In order for a man to know ...
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... four sides " is a case in point . Descartes insists in several places in the Meditations that this sort of proposition neither says nor implies that there are actual square objects . It simply says that if a thing is a square , then it ...
... four sides " is a case in point . Descartes insists in several places in the Meditations that this sort of proposition neither says nor implies that there are actual square objects . It simply says that if a thing is a square , then it ...
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PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS ON THE NATURE | 3 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH CEPHALUS | 36 |
THE ARGUMENT WITH THRASYMACHUS | 46 |
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