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René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy

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1 Ded, 4 | that I had cultivated a certain Method of resolving all 2 Ded, 5 | all as evident even and certain (because indeed they manifestly 3 Ded, 5 | of which there is not a certain demonstration, those but 4 Pre, 7 | that I have arrived at a certain and evident knowledge of 5 Syn, 2 | is constituted only by a certain configuration of members, 6 Syn, 2 | although, for example, it think certain things, will others, and 7 Syn, 5 | more than the former, from certain difficulties, but of these 8 Syn, 6 | human knowledge, the most certain and manifest -- a conclusion 9 I, 2 | from what is not entirely certain and indubitable, than from 10 I, 5 | clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state 11 I, 6 | new, but can only make a certain medley of the members of 12 I, 6 | absolutely false, it is at least certain that the colors of which 13 I, 6 | these, of which, just as of certain real colors, all those images 14 I, 8 | contain somewhat that is certain and indubitable: for whether 15 I, 10| believe that there is nothing certain. But let us for the present 16 I, 10| deceived and to err is a certain defect ) that the probability 17 I, 10| desire to discover anything certain, I ought not the less carefully 18 I, 12| undertaking is arduous, and a certain indolence insensibly leads 19 II, 1 | shall find something that is certain, or at least, if I can do 20 II, 1 | certainty that there is nothing certain. Archimedes, that he might 21 II, 1 | discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable. ~ 22 II, 2 | there is absolutely nothing certain. ~ 23 II, 4 | be of all others the most certain and evident. For this reason, 24 II, 4 | remain nothing but what is certain and indubitable. ~ 25 II, 5 | that can be terminated by a certain figure; that can be comprised 26 II, 5 | that can be comprised in a certain place, and so fill a certain 27 II, 5 | certain place, and so fill a certain space as therefrom to exclude 28 II, 6 | I am -- I exist: this is certain; but how often? As often 29 II, 7 | It is, however, perfectly certain that the knowledge of my 30 II, 9 | understands and conceives certain things; who affirms one 31 II, 9 | that is, who apprehends certain objects as by the organs 32 II, 9 | so. At all events it is certain that I seem to see light, 33 II, 14| consider it quite naked, it is certain, although some error may 34 III, 2 | hitherto observed. I am certain that I am a thinking thing; 35 III, 2 | is required to render me certain of a truth ? In this first 36 III, 3 | admitted many things as wholly certain and manifest, which yet 37 III, 4 | not see that I can ever be certain of anything. And that I 38 III, 4 | divide all my thoughts into certain classes, and to consider 39 III, 5 | God. Others, again, have certain other forms; as when I will, 40 III, 6 | the ideas themselves as certain modes of our thought (consciousness), 41 III, 7 | sensations proceeded from certain objects existing out of 42 III, 8 | that appear to come from certain objects without me, what 43 III, 9 | by the word nature only a certain spontaneous impetus that 44 III, 11| that is, elicited from certain notions born with me, or 45 III, 12| hitherto it has not been from a certain and deliberate judgment, 46 III, 12| I believed existence of certain things different from myself, 47 III, 13| so far only as they are certain modes of consciousness, 48 III, 19| nevertheless be found in ideas a certain material falsity, which 49 III, 21| but because they are only certain modes of substance, and 50 III, 36| origin was the giving of certain dispositions ( modifications ) 51 IV, 2 | fraud and deceit there is a certain imperfection: and although 52 IV, 3 | conscious that I possess a certain faculty of judging or discerning 53 IV, 3 | deceive me, it is likewise certain that he has not given me 54 IV, 4 | but also, so to speak, a certain negative idea of nothing, 55 IV, 5 | never be deceived; it is certain, likewise, that he always 56 IV, 8 | to discern that I bear a certain image and similitude of 57 IV, 10| likewise presented to my mind a certain idea of corporeal nature; 58 IV, 11| merely conjectures, and not certain and indubitable reasons, 59 IV, 15| withholding my assent from certain things of which he has not 60 IV, 15| perfection in the universe, that certain of its parts are not exempt 61 V, 5 | mind innumerable ideas of certain objects, which cannot be 62 V, 5 | this figure possesses a certain determinate nature, form, 63 V, 6 | among the number of the most certain truths those I clearly conceived 64 V, 7 | existence of God? It is certain that I no less find the 65 V, 7 | for a truth at least as certain as I ever judged any truth 66 V, 8 | awanting, or who is devoid of a certain perfection, than to conceive 67 V, 12| latter are not esteemed less certain than the former. Thus, for 68 V, 13| it as of what I deem most certain, but I remark further that 69 V, 14| should possess no true and certain knowledge, but merely vague 70 V, 14| many things to be true and certain which other reasons afterward 71 V, 15| it thus becomes true and certain. And this same knowledge 72 V, 15| deemed things to be true and certain which I afterward discovered 73 VI, 1 | find that it is simply a certain application of the cognitive 74 VI, 4 | consciousness), I cannot obtain a certain proof of the existence of 75 VI, 6 | beneficial I remarked by a certain sensation of pleasure, and 76 VI, 6 | other appetites, as well as certain corporeal inclinations toward 77 VI, 6 | that I thought I perceived certain objects wholly different 78 VI, 7 | that I could not be quite certain even that any one of my 79 VI, 9 | another, in order to be certain that the one is different 80 VI, 9 | unthinking thing, it is certain that I, that is, my mind, 81 VI, 10| things. I remark likewise certain other faculties, as the 82 VI, 10| but that there is in me a certain passive faculty of perception, 83 VI, 13| mind and body compose a certain unity. For if this were 84 VI, 13| are nothing more than certain confused modes of thinking, 85 VI, 14| perceptions of the senses proceed, certain varieties corresponding 86 VI, 17| this is nothing more than a certain denomination, depending 87 VI, 21| excite in these parts a certain motion appointed by nature 88 VI, 21| are not affected, but only certain of their parts that pass 89 VI, 22| arises from this want a certain parchedness in the throat


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