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able analytical geometry animal spirits appear Aristotle ARTICLE attributes believe blood body brain Cartesian ceive certainly chiliagon clear and distinct clearly and distinctly colour conceive conclusion consider contrary corporeal corporeal substance deceive deduced deny depend Descartes desire Discourse on Method discover diverse doubt easily efficient cause enumeration error essence eternal exist existence of God extended fact faculty false figure follow Galileo Harvard University heat heavens hence human idea imagine inasmuch infinite judge judgment knowledge Leibniz less likewise mathematics matter means Meditation merely metaphysical method mind mode motion move movement nerves never nevertheless objects observe opinions ourselves pain pass passions perceive perfect pertain philosophers possess PRINCIPLE Principles of Philosophy proceed Professor of English Ralph Barton Perry reality reason recognise regard rule seems sensation senses sophism soul speak substance sufficient suppose tain thought tion true truth understand University whole
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Side 226 - Of the existence of material things, and of the real distinction between the soul and body of man Nothing further now remains but to inquire whether material things exist.
Side 163 - But nevertheless, on the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am...
Side 135 - I remarked in them hardness, heat, and all other tactile qualities, and, further, light and colour, and scents and sounds, the variety of which gave me the means of distinguishing the sky, the earth, the sea, and generally all the other bodies, one from the other.
Side 127 - ... nevertheless whenever it happens that I think of a first and a sovereign Being, and, so to speak, derive the idea of Him from the storehouse of my mind, it is necessary that I should attribute to Him every sort of perfection, although I do not get so far as to enumerate them all, or to apply my mind to each one in particular. And this necessity suffices to make me conclude (after having recognised that existence is a perfection) that this first and sovereign Being really exists...
Side 120 - I say, is found in the act, in so far as it proceeds from myself, but it does not exist in the faculty which I received from God, nor even in the act, in so far as it depends on him...
Side 209 - MEDITATION I Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful. It is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I had from my earliest youth admitted as true, and how doubtful was everything I had since constructed on this basis; and from that time I was convinced that I must once for all seriously undertake to rid myself of all the opinions...
Side 80 - I shall consider myself as having no hands, no eyes, no flesh, no blood, nor any senses, yet falsely believing myself to possess all these things...
Side 111 - ... seem to present themselves, to the external organs of my senses: nor is it likewise a fiction of my mind, for it is not in my power to take from or to add anything to it: and consequently the only alternative is that it is innate in me...
Side 77 - I extend my hand and perceive it; what happens in sleep does not appear so clear nor so distinct as does all this. But in thinking over this I remind myself that on many occasions I have in sleep been deceived by similar illusions, and in dwelling carefully on this reflection I see so manifestly that there are no certain indications by which we may clearly distinguish wakefulness from sleep that I am lost in astonishment.
Side 199 - ... the animal spirits to pass thence into the nerves, in such a manner as is required to produce this motion, in the same way as in a machine, and without the mind being able to hinder it. Now since we observe this in ourselves, why...