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... material substances . We have traced in detail his view that we can have no certain knowledge of these because of our ignorance of real essences . Other cases , as we noted in section 9 , concerned certain basic facts about minds and ...
... material substances . We have traced in detail his view that we can have no certain knowledge of these because of our ignorance of real essences . Other cases , as we noted in section 9 , concerned certain basic facts about minds and ...
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... material body . For Descartes the problem was sometimes more precise than this . If mind can initiate movement in body then motion is being created . But this con- tradicts his firmly held idea that there is in the universe a constant ...
... material body . For Descartes the problem was sometimes more precise than this . If mind can initiate movement in body then motion is being created . But this con- tradicts his firmly held idea that there is in the universe a constant ...
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... material world against this charge , and to distance themselves from Hobbesian irreligion . A large part of Sprat's History of the Royal Society is taken up with this defence . Similarly Glanvill's Philosophia Pia ( 1671 ) is an ...
... material world against this charge , and to distance themselves from Hobbesian irreligion . A large part of Sprat's History of the Royal Society is taken up with this defence . Similarly Glanvill's Philosophia Pia ( 1671 ) is an ...
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Chapter 4 | 149 |
Bibliography of Books and Articles referred to more than once | 190 |
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