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A. N. Whitehead 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 heat heavens hence human idea imagine inasmuch infinite judge judgment knowledge Leibniz less likewise mathematics matter means Meditation merely 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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الصفحة 111 - Now it is manifest by the natural light that there must at least be as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in its effect.
الصفحة 120 - For all the course of my life may be divided into an infinite number of parts, none of which is in any way dependent on the other ; and thus from the fact that I was in existence a short time ago...
الصفحة 97 - I exist also if he deceives me, and let him deceive me as much as he will, he can never cause me to be nothing so long as I think that I am something. So that after having reflected well and carefully examined all things, we must come to the definite conclusion that this proposition: I am, I exist...
الصفحة 175 - But nevertheless, on the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am...
الصفحة 221 - 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...
الصفحة 211 - ... 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...
الصفحة 36 - And if I write in French, which is the language of my country, in preference to Latin, which is that of my preceptors...
الصفحة 3 - ... been my singular good fortune to have very early in life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me to considerations and maxims, of which I have formed a Method that gives me the means, as I think, of gradually augmenting my knowledge, and of raising it by little and little to the highest point which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of my life will permit me to reach. For I have already reaped from it such fruits that, although I have been accustomed to think lowly...
الصفحة 56 - Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed if we would find out any truth. We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions step by step to those that are simpler, and then starting with the intuitive apprehension of all those that are absolutely simple, attempt to ascend to the knowledge of all others by precisely similar steps.
الصفحة 118 - ... nevertheless these excellences do not pertain to [or make the smallest approach to] the idea which I have of God in whom there is nothing merely potential [but in whom all is present really and actually] ; for it is an infallible token of imperfection in my knowledge that it increases little by little. And further, although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will...