The Method, Meditations, and Selections from the Principles of DescartesW. Blackwood and sons, 1925 - 292 من الصفحات |
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absolutely abstract affirm appear apprehend Aristotle attribute brain called Cartesian cause clear and distinct clearly and distinctly cogito ergo sum colour comprehend conceive conception consciousness consider contained corporeal substance deceived deduced definite Deity Democritus dependent Descartes determine Dioptrics Discourse on Method discover diverse doctrine doubt dualism effect error example existence existence of God experience extension external faculty false figure finite greater ground Hegel Hegelian idea identity imagination impossible infinite judge judgment knowledge Leibnitz less likewise limit logical lutely Malebranche manifest matter means Meditations merely metaphysical mind modes motion necessary negation nerves ness never nevertheless objects observed opinions pain perceive perception perfect philosophy possess possible principles properties pure qualities rarefaction reality reason regard relation represent scholasticism sciousness self-consciousness sensations senses simply soul space Spinoza Spinozistic sufficient suppose syllogism things thought tion true truth understanding universal unless whole wholly words
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الصفحة 109 - Let it be attentively considered, and, retrenching all that does not belong to the wax, let us see what remains. There certainly remains nothing, except something extended, flexible, and movable.
الصفحة 5 - But as this Tract is put forth merely as a history, or, if you will, as a tale, in which, amid some examples worthy of imitation, there will be found, perhaps, as many more which it were advisable not to follow...
الصفحة 19 - ... there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another.
الصفحة 135 - I possess, there is none so great and perfect as that I do not clearly discern it could be still greater and more perfect. For, to take an example, if I consider the faculty of understanding which I possess, I find that it is of very small extent, and greatly limited, and at the same time I form the idea of another faculty of the same nature, much more ample and even infinite; and seeing that I can frame the idea of it, I discover, from this circumstance alone, that it pertains to the nature of God....
الصفحة 111 - For what was there in this first perception which was distinct? What was there which might not as well have been perceived by any of the animals? But when I distinguish the wax from its external forms, and when, just as if I had taken from it its vestments, I consider it...
الصفحة 14 - ... teaching them established in the Schools: but as for the opinions which up to that time I had embraced, I thought that I could not do better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away, that I might afterwards be in a position to admit either others more correct, or even perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of Reason.
الصفحة 20 - ... hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order necessary for the deduction of one truth from another. And I had little difficulty in determining the objects with which it was necessary to commence, for I was already persuaded that it must be with the simplest and easiest to know, and, considering that of all those who have hitherto sought truth in the Sciences, the mathematicians alone have been...
الصفحة 13 - Thus also, those ancient cities which, from being at first only villages, have become, in course of time, large towns, are usually but ill laid out compared with the regularly constructed towns which a professional architect has freely planned on an open plain; so that although the several buildings of the former may often equal or surpass in beauty those of the latter, yet when one observes their indiscriminate juxtaposition, there a large one and here a small, and the consequent crookedness and...
الصفحة 40 - And because our reasonings are never so clear or so complete during sleep as when we are awake, although sometimes the acts of our imagination are then as lively and distinct, if not more so than in our waking moments, reason further dictates that, since all our thoughts cannot be true because of our partial imperfection, those possessing truth must infallibly be found in the experience of our waking moments rather than in that of our dreams.
الصفحة 23 - ... work, as well by eradicating from my mind all the erroneous opinions I had up to that moment accepted, as by amassing variety of experience to afford materials for my reasonings, and by continually exercising myself in my chosen Method with a view to increased skill in its application. Part III And, finally, as it is not enough, before commencing to rebuild the house in which we live, that it be pulled down, and materials and builders provided, or that we engage in the work ourselves, according...