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501 VI, 14| affected, both beneficially and hurtfully, by surrounding bodies. ~
502 VI, 23| excited by a cause which hurts the foot than by one acting
503 VI, 24| of those bygone days, as hyperbolical and ridiculous, especially
504 Syn, 3 | workman; for as the objective (i.e.., representative) perfection
505 III, 8 | sensation or idea (sensum vel ideam) of heat is produced in
506 V, 6 | is something, truth being identical with existence]; and I have
507 II, 6 | myself. To recount them were idle and tedious. Let us pass,
508 Ded, 6 | but chiefly also of my ignorance, I do not affirm that it
509 II | MEDITATION II~ ~OF THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN
510 III | MEDITATION III~ ~OF GOD: THAT HE EXISTS~
511 I, 8 | therefore, perhaps reason illegitimately if we conclude from this
512 Pre, 1 | would not be expedient to illustrate it at greater length in
513 Syn, 3 | absolutely perfect. This is illustrated in the Replies by the comparison
514 III, 1 | which I call perceptions and imaginations, in as far only as they
515 II, 14| called, that is, by the imaginative faculty; or whether I rather
516 Syn, 2 | mind is in its own nature immortal. ~
517 II, 1 | point that was firm and immovable; so, also, I shall be entitled
518 Ded, 2 | other things, can likewise impart of it to enable us to believe
519 II, 13| words yet occasionally impede my progress, and I am almost
520 IV, 6 | temerity, seek to discover the impenetrable ] ends of Deity. ~
521 III, 25| may exist in me from my imperfections as I before said of the
522 VI, 17| compare a sick man and an imperfectly constructed clock with the
523 III, 9 | only a certain spontaneous impetus that impels me to believe
524 III, 38| that God, at my creation, implanted this idea in me, that it
525 IV, 15| limited knowledge, viz., by implanting in my understanding a clear
526 III, 25| as real or true, and as implying any perfection, is contained
527 I, 12| what is false, and being imposed upon by this deceiver, whatever
528 VI, 22| sensations which it is capable of impressing upon it; that one which
529 III, 19| real and positive will not improperly be called false, if it be
530 Pre, 5 | more than my premises, were impugned, and that by arguments borrowed
531 Ded, 5 | thinkers by audaciously impugning such truths as are of the
532 IV, 12| not therefore escape the imputation of a wrong use of my freedom;
533 Ded, 5 | no consequents that are inaccurately related to their antecedents),
534 I, 12| light of day, should prove inadequate to dispel the darkness that
535 III, 17| represent corporeal and inanimate things; others angels; others
536 III, 27| beyond which it shall be incapable of further increase. But
537 V, 14| constitution is also such as to incapacitate me from keeping my mind
538 I, 8 | suspicion of falsity or incertitude]. ~
539 VI, 6 | well as certain corporeal inclinations toward joy, sadness, anger,
540 VI, 7 | for as nature seemed to incline me to many things from which
541 IV, 8 | contrary, the more I am inclined toward the one, whether
542 III, 36| consider to be myself, is inclosed; and thus there can here
543 V, 11| This objection is, I say, incompetent; for although it may not
544 Syn, 2 | are in their own nature incorruptible, and can never cease to
545 III, 26| prevent it from thus gradually increasing to infinity, nor any reason
546 III, 38| mind], and that not merely indefinitely and potentially, but infinitely
547 VI, 6 | should arise, or why this indescribable twitching of the stomach,
548 VI, 17| nature when it incorrectly indicates the hours, and on the same
549 VI, 17| natural for it, when it is not indisposed to be stimulated to drink
550 V, 15| presented to my intellect is indisputably true. ~
551 VI, 15| may avoid everything like indistinctness of conception, I must accurately
552 VI, 24| to error with respect to individual objects; and we must, in
553 Pre, 6 | from all prejudice; and individuals of this character are, I
554 I, 12| is arduous, and a certain indolence insensibly leads me back
555 III, 13| remark any difference or inequality among them, and all seem,
556 VI, 15| nevertheless used by me as infallible rules by which to determine
557 Syn, 2 | reciprocally distinct; and this inference is made in the Sixth Meditation.
558 III, 38| indefinitely and potentially, but infinitely and actually, and that he
559 VI, 10| substance in which they inhere. It is very evident, however,
560 VI, 21| contract at the same time the inmost parts of the brain in which
561 VI, 22| medulla of the spine to the innermost parts of the brain affords
562 III, 13| is still another way of inquiring whether, of the objects
563 I, 4 | with persons in a state of insanity, whose brains are so disordered
564 III, 35| unity, the simplicity, or inseparability of all the properties of
565 V, 16| knowledge alone of the true God, insomuch that, before I knew him,
566 II, 12| is simply an intuition (inspectio) of the mind, which may
567 Ded, 2 | no other source than the inspection of our own minds. I have,
568 II, 5 | themselves in my mind, and were inspired by my own nature alone,
569 V, 14| appears to me, who have been instructed in the principles of geometry,
570 Ded, 6 | solidity, or greater wisdom and integrity in giving judgment, I doubt
571 IV, 13| given me a greater power of intelligence or more perfect natural
572 VI, 2 | conceiving or understanding (ad intelligendum); and this special exertion
573 VI, 10| that is to say, without an intelligent substance in which they
574 IV, 1 | from all matter, are purely intelligible. And certainly the idea
575 VI, 2 | triangle I not only conceive (intelligo) that it is a figure comprehended
576 Pre, 3 | reply, that it was not my intention in that place to exclude
577 VI, 13| conjoined, and as it were intermixed with it, that my mind and
578 IV, 8 | goodness, or because God thus internally disposes my thought, the
579 III, 32| required, therefore, is that I interrogate myself to discover whether
580 III, 4 | to examine this without interrupting the order of meditation
581 VI, 24| to me, and when, without interruption, I can connect the perception
582 VI, 10| ideas to me, nor even by the intervention of any creature in which
583 III, 1 | obtain by degrees a more intimate and familiar knowledge of
584 VI, 13| but that I am besides so intimately conjoined, and as it were
585 I, 4 | piece of paper, with other intimations of the same nature. But
586 VI, 2 | same time also I look upon (intueor) these three lines as present
587 II, 4 | that can in the least be invalidated by the grounds of doubt
588 VI, 17| nature, as is the case with invalids who desire drink or food
589 V, 5 | cannot be said to have been invented by me. ~
590 III, 7 | hippogryphs, and the like, are inventions of my own mind. But I may
591 VI, 17| it at present manifests involuntarily, and therefore without the
592 Syn, 2 | immortality of the soul, involve an explication of the whole
593 Ded, 5 | also are somewhat long and involved, as chiefly because they
594 I, 2 | the foundation necessarily involves the downfall of the whole
595 Pre, 5 | judgments of many are so irrational and weak that they are persuaded
596 Ded, 4 | am aware that most of the irreligious deny the existence of God,
597 VI, 6 | comprehend, between this irritation of the stomach and the desire
598 II, 10| the properties it finds in itsel, it may then be the more
599 IV | MEDITATION IV~ ~OF TRUTH AND ERROR~
600 II, 11| remain; no one doubts it, or judges otherwise. What, then, was
601 I, 2 | it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole
602 V, 14| to incapacitate me from keeping my mind continually fixed
603 IV, 13| unjustly deprived me of, or kept back, the other perfections
604 III, 1 | doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant
605 I, 2 | would be truly an endless labor; but, as the removal from
606 I, 12| slumber, lest the time of laborious wakefulness that would succeed
607 II, 13| by the terms of ordinary language. We say, for example, that
608 Ded, 3 | nevertheless, since the Lateran Council, held under Leo
609 VI, 17| less accurately all the laws of nature when it is ill
610 Ded, 6 | ingenious or learned, to lay aside the spirit of contradiction,
611 Pre, 7 | illustrious for their genius and learning, to whom these Meditations
612 VI, 17| nature is corrupted; but this leaves the difficulty untouched,
613 IV, 16| deliberate, he has at least left in my power the other means,
614 Ded, 3 | Lateran Council, held under Leo X. (in session viii.), condemns
615 I, 10| they assign my origin, is lessened. To these reasonings I have
616 Ded, 5 | persuade myself that they are level to the comprehension of
617 I, 10| through thoughtlessness or levity, but from cogent and maturely
618 VI, 24| errors to which my nature is liable, but likewise in rendering
619 VI, 21| any one of the parts that lie between those two, although
620 V, 10| contrary, the necessity which lies in the thing itself, that
621 III, 12| impressed it with their likenesses]. ~
622 III, 30| should discover in them a limit to my power. ~
623 II, 11| size increases, it becomes liquid, it grows hot, it can hardly
624 VI, 6 | the senses were much more lively and clear, and even, in
625 V, 3 | figures, situations, and local motions; and, in fine, I
626 VI, 13| etc., that I am not only lodged in my body as a pilot in
627 III, 38| who possesses all those lofty perfections, of which the
628 VI, 7 | summits of these towers, looked like small statues, when
629 Ded, 2 | not rather find out the Lord thereof? And in Romans,
630 I, 11| subduing my belief; nor will I lose the habit of deferring to
631 III, 1 | ignorant of many, -- who loves, hates], wills, refuses,
632 IV, 8 | want of a reason, is the lowest grade of liberty, and manifests
633 V, 10| analogous, and a fallacy lurks under the semblance of this
634 I, 5 | by the fire, when I was lying undressed in bed? At the
635 II, 13| that might cover artificial machines, whose motions might be
636 II, 3 | that it must, in fine, be maintained, all things being maturely
637 III, 39| contemplation of the Divine majesty alone, so even now we learn
638 VI, 17| drinking, and thus increase its malady and do itself harm, as it
639 IV, 2 | testifies without doubt of malice and weakness; and such,
640 Ded, 6 | and, finally, the rest of mankind will readily trust to so
641 VI, 24| state: for I now find a very marked difference between the two
642 III, 39| may ponder at leisure his marvelous attributes -- and behold,
643 I, 8 | that Physics, Astronomy, Medicine, and all the other sciences
644 Pre, 6 | are able and willing to meditate with me in earnest, to detach
645 I, 6 | can only make a certain medley of the members of different
646 VI, 22| motion passing through the medulla of the spine to the innermost
647 II, 12| greater when the wax is melted, greater when it is boiled,
648 Syn, 6 | which account I here omit mention of the various other questions
649 VI, 2 | application of my mind (acie mentis), and this is what I call
650 V, 6 | therefore something, and not mere negations; for it is highly
651 II, 15| here referred, scarcely merit to be taken into account. ~
652 Pre, 2 | all who might find aught meriting censure in my writings,
653 Ded, 6 | place, to correct it (for mindful not only of my humanity,
654 IV, 3 | along with whatever else is mine; and since it is impossible
655 III, 18| they were formed by the mingling and composition of the other
656 I, 4 | occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects, and such as are
657 I, 4 | the senses occasionally mislead us respecting minute objects,
658 I, 3 | however, that these sometimes misled us; and it is the part of
659 III, 3 | resemblance; and it was here I was mistaken, or if I judged correctly,
660 VI, 16| with which poison has been mixed, as to be induced to take
661 III, 36| of certain dispositions ( modifications ) to the matter in which
662 I, 5 | to them in their waking moments. How often have I dreamt
663 I, 4 | to assert that they are monarchs when they are in the greatest
664 Ded, 2 | religion, or almost even any moral virtue, unless, first of
665 Ded, 1 | 1. The motive which impels me to present
666 VI, 22| parchedness in the throat that moves its nerves, and by means
667 VI, 17| composed of bones, nerves, muscles, veins, blood, and skin,
668 VI, 2 | if I were to think of a myriogon, or any other figure of
669 IV, 4 | wholly to him, I discover in mysel no cause of error or falsity:
670 II, 14| vestments, I consider it quite naked, it is certain, although
671 VI, 15| nature is here taken in a narrower sense than when it signifies
672 II, 11| speaking, let it be placed near the fire -- what remained
673 VI, 24| deceived. But because the necessities of action frequently oblige
674 III, 31| no author of my existence needed to be sought after. For
675 IV, 4 | so to speak, a certain negative idea of nothing, in other
676 Pre, 6 | the purpose of small but noisy criticism, as is the custom
677 II, 7 | things which I suppose to be non-existent, because they are unknown
678 III, 21| that I am a thinking and non-extended thing, and that the stone,
679 I, 6 | to imagine something so novel that nothing at all similar
680 II, 6 | mentioned were the powers of nutrition and walking; but, if it
681 IV, 8 | account, to think that it was obligatory on him to give to each of
682 VI, 24| necessities of action frequently oblige us to come to a determination
683 VI, 24| life of man is frequently obnoxious to error with respect to
684 III, 28| vision of my mind being obscured, and, as it were, blinded
685 Syn, 3 | from the senses, numerous obscurities perhaps remain, which, however,
686 III, 19| are thought with so much obscurity and confusion, that I cannot
687 I, 4 | beyond the reach of close observation, there are yet many other
688 I, 11| sufficient to have made these observations; care must be taken likewise
689 VI, 17| wheels and counter weights, observes not the less accurately
690 III, 13| evident that a great diversity obtains among them. For, without
691 II, 14| ought to be ashamed to seek occasions of doubting from the vulgar
692 IV, 7 | produce them, so that I may occupy a place in the relation
693 I, 11| giving them the right of occupying my mind, even almost against
694 I, 5 | and I perceive it; the occurrences in sleep are not so distinct
695 | off
696 VI, 15| is, as appears to me, the office of the mind alone, and not
697 IV, 16| nevertheless, by attentive and oft-repeated meditation, impress it so
698 Ded, 4 | new (there being nothing older than truth), but of which
699 Syn, 6 | on which account I here omit mention of the various other
700 VI, 9 | exist separately, by the omnipotence of God; and it matters not
701 VI, 16| beyond that our nature is not omniscient; at which there is assuredly
702 Pre, 7 | source of difficulty to each ones I shall expound, first of
703 I, 6 | particulars -- namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion
704 Pre, 5 | them, however false and opposed to reason they may be, than
705 I, 10| the present refrain from opposing this opinion, and grant
706 VI, 23| the same movement that is ordinarily created when the foot is
707 VI, 6 | unless it were present to the organ of sense; and it was wholly
708 V, 11| one of them, but that my original supposition was not necessary;
709 III, 22| that cannot be supposed to originate with myself. By the name
710 III, 19| did not appear capable of originating; for, by considering these
711 | ourselves
712 | over
713 I, 1 | and freely to the general overthrow of all my former opinions. ~
714 IV, 13| render thanks to God, who owed me nothing, for having given
715 III, 23| substance be in my mind owing to this, that I myself am
716 I, 6 | in sleep are, as it were, painted representations which could
717 I, 6 | existent. For, in truth, painters themselves, even when they
718 Ded, 5 | Archimedes, Apollonius, Pappus, and others, which, though
719 Ded | SACRED FACULTY OF THEOLOGY OF PARIS ~GENTLEMEN, ~
720 Ded, 5 | demonstration, those but partially versed in it err more frequently
721 Syn, 3 | objective reality i. e., participates by representation in so
722 IV, 1 | breadth, and depth, and participating in none of the properties
723 VI, 7 | sometimes been informed by parties whose arm or leg had been
724 VI, 6 | intellect which had not formerly passed through the senses. Nor
725 VI, 10| there is in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that
726 Syn, 1 | and affords the easiest pathway by which the mind may withdraw
727 Ded, 6 | you extend to them your patronage and approval. But since
728 Ded, 6 | if you but condescend to pay so much regard to this Treatise
729 I, 1 | possession of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length
730 II, 7 | body; I am not a thin and penetrating air diffused through all
731 VI, 2 | the question turns on a pentagon, it is quite true that I
732 II, 9 | his will; and is likewise percipient of many, as if through the
733 IV, 8 | anything but] merely apprehend (percipio) the ideas regarding which
734 III, 26| knowledge is being increased and perfected] by degrees; and I see nothing
735 Ded, 4 | more useful service to be performed in Philosophy, than if some
736 I, 11| there will arise neither peril nor error from this course,
737 Ded, 3 | to the conclusion that it perished with the body, and that
738 I, 11| old and customary opinions perpetually recur -- long and familiar
739 Syn, 3 | workman, or of some other person from whom he has received
740 Ded, 6 | elsewhere to find greater perspicacity and solidity, or greater
741 Ded, 6 | brought to such degree of perspicuity as to be esteemed exact
742 II, 15| other cause, whatever it be, persuades me of the existence of the
743 V, 12| the power of completely persuading me. And although, of the
744 VI, 6 | right, I called my own, pertained to me more properly and
745 II, 5 | thinking, I held as by no means pertaining to the nature of body; on
746 I, 4 | vapors as to cause them pertinaciously to assert that they are
747 VI, 15| have been accustomed to pervert the order of nature, because
748 I, 11| longer be turned aside by perverted usage from the path that
749 VI, 24| esteem it either a specter or phantom formed in my brain, rather
750 II, 7 | imagination. Moreover, the phrase itself, I frame an image (
751 IV, 6 | causes is of no avail in physical or natural ] things; for
752 III, 15| that ideas exist in me as pictures or images, which may, in
753 VI, 17| preservation, nevertheless I yet plainly discern that this latter
754 II, 1 | as to be unable either to plant my feet firmly on the bottom
755 II, 12| sweetness of honey, the pleasant odor of flowers, the whiteness,
756 III, 21| to as many objects as I please. With respect to the other
757 Pre, 2 | writings, to do me the favor of pointing it out to me, I may state
758 VI, 2 | between a chiliogon and other polygons. But if the question turns
759 III, 39| God himself -- that I may ponder at leisure his marvelous
760 III, 38| that I perceive I could not possibly be of such a nature as I
761 I, 12| who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed
762 I, 4 | they are in the greatest poverty; or clothed in gold] and
763 II, 6 | first mentioned were the powers of nutrition and walking;
764 V, 12| respect to God if I were not pre-occupied by prejudices, and my thought
765 IV, 12| understanding ought always to precede the determination of the
766 III, 4 | true. But as often as this preconceived opinion of the sovereign
767 Pre | PREFACE TO THE READER~ ~
768 IV, 10| adopt the one belief in preference to the other; whence it
769 Syn, 2 | the geometers, viz., to premise all upon which the proposition
770 Syn, 2 | Now, the first and chief prerequisite for the knowledge of the
771 V, 12| all sides by the continual presence of the images of sensible
772 III, 19| bodies of diverse figures preserve with reference to each other;
773 Pre, 7 | they were committed to the press; for these objections are
774 Pre, 6 | will yet hardly start any pressing objections, or such as shall
775 VI, 10| seeing that it does not presuppose thought, and also that those
776 Pre, 7 | the reasonings which have prevailed with myself will also be
777 III, 15| at least to the first and principal), by their peculiar nature.
778 III, 8 | 8. What I have here principally to do is to consider, with
779 V, 12| indeed, whatever mode of probation I in the end adopt, it always
780 I, 4 | they, were I to regulate my procedure according to examples so
781 IV, 12| the act, in so far as it proceeds from myself, but it does
782 V, 14| cease from attending to the process of proof, although I still
783 Ded, 6 | which doubt of these truths produces].* But it would not here
784 II, 12| have of the wax is not the product of the faculty of imagination.
785 Pre, 6 | that such persons will not profit greatly by the reading of
786 I, 12| that the deception may be prolonged; so I, of my own accord,
787 Pre, 7 | since, indeed, I do not promise to satisfy others on all
788 II, 16| difficult to rid one's self so promptly of an opinion to which one
789 II, 13| weakness of my mind, and] its proneness to error. For although,
790 II, 3 | that this proposition (pronunciatum ) I am, I exist, is necessarily
791 III, 30| have denied to myself any property which I perceive is contained
792 Ded, 5 | I should venture now to propose them as demonstrations of
793 Ded, 1 | your taking it under your protection, that I can in no way better
794 I, 9 | nor magnitude, nor place, providing at the same time, however,
795 I, 3 | us; and it is the part of prudence not to place absolute confidence
796 Ded, 6 | approbation, and render a public testimony of their truth
797 Pre, 1 | Truth in the Sciences," published in French in the year 1637;
798 VI, 2 | imaginatio et intellectio pura). ~
799 I, 4 | or clothed in gold] and purple when destitute of any covering;
800 IV, 8 | in affirming or denying, pursuing or shunning, what is proposed
801 Syn, 4 | of error committed in the pursuit of good and evil, but of
802 VI, 15| the name nature, as the quality of heaviness, and the like,
803 VI, 23| one acting in a different quarter, it is reasonable that it
804 I, 12| that would succeed this quiet rest, in place of bringing
805 IV, 9 | which is of much wider range than the understanding,
806 VI, 10| some other creature, of a rank superior to body, in which
807 VI, 8 | indeed, think that I ought rashly to admit all which the senses
808 VI, 4 | memory, they seem to have reached the imagination, I believe
809 Pre, 6 | not profit greatly by the reading of this treatise; and although
810 I, 6 | unless in the likeness of realities; and, therefore, that those
811 Ded, 2 | would consider that the reasoning proceeded in a circle. And,
812 II, 5 | touched and from which it receives the impression]; for the
813 VI, 10| perception, that is, of receiving and taking knowledge of
814 | recently
815 V, 14| afterward constrained me to reckon as wholly false. ~
816 V, 6 | the objects of sense, I reckoned among the number of the
817 VI, 6 | they caused. And because I recollected also that I had formerly
818 Ded, 1 | that I can in no way better recommend it to you than by briefly
819 II, 6 | to belong to myself. To recount them were idle and tedious.
820 I, 11| customary opinions perpetually recur -- long and familiar usage
821 IV, 4 | immediately thereafter, recurring to myself, experience assures
822 Syn, 2 | his concurrence to them, reduce them to nothing; and, in
823 III, 26| themselves, and are not reduced to act. Indeed, I am already
824 Syn, 4 | and the false. Nor do I refer to matters of faith, or
825 Pre, 3 | though, while the human mind reflects on itself, it does not perceive
826 Syn, 2 | unless God himself, by refusing his concurrence to them,
827 Pre, 5 | but subsequently received, refutation of them, I am unwilling
828 Ded, 3 | Christian philosophers to refute their arguments, and establish
829 II, 5 | through my grosser parts. As regarded the body, I did not even
830 I, 4 | insane than they, were I to regulate my procedure according to
831 VI, 24| the senses. And I ought to reject all the doubts of those
832 I, 2 | sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall
833 III, 28| attention in some degree to relax, the vision of my mind being
834 Ded, 6 | itself will readily lead the remainder of the ingenious and the
835 IV, 8 | to me here to be highly remarkable is that, of all the other
836 Pre, 6 | character are, I well know, remarkably rare. But with regard to
837 Ded, 6 | that I may endeavour to remedy them; and, finally, when
838 II, 7 | frame an image (efffingo), reminds me of my error; for I should
839 I, 2 | endless labor; but, as the removal from below of the foundation
840 II, 15| many other causes besides, rendered it manifest to my apprehension,
841 III, 24| same way that I comprehend repose and darkness by the negation
842 VI, 7 | degrees sapped the faith I had reposed in my senses; for I frequently
843 I, 6 | are, as it were, painted representations which could not have been
844 Syn, 3 | as the objective (i.e.., representative) perfection of this idea
845 I, 5 | the habit of sleeping, and representing to myself in dreams those
846 Ded, 5 | greater number seek the reputation of bold thinkers by audaciously
847 Pre, 2 | Discourse on Method," I had requested all who might find aught
848 III, 31| moment of its duration, requires the same power and act that
849 VI, 18| corrupted, when, without requiring drink, the throat is parched;
850 III, 11| ideas cannot certainly both resemble the same sun; and reason
851 VI, 15| for holding that something resembling the heat I feel is in the
852 VI, 15| not speak, the term being reserved exclusively to designate
853 VI, 10| substance in which they reside, for in the notion we have
854 III, 32| myself ), if such a power resided in me, I should, without
855 V, 14| apprehension of a matter, to resist the conviction of its truth,
856 I, 12| of these; I will continue resolutely fixed in this belief, and
857 IV, 12| am not deceived; but if I resolve to deny or affirm, I then
858 II, 1 | principle on which they can be resolved; and, just as if I had fallen
859 Ded, 4 | cultivated a certain Method of resolving all kinds of difficulties
860 III, 34| that the question raised respects not so much the cause which
861 III, 4 | the ground of doubt that rests only on this supposition
862 III, 19| and depth; figure, which results from the termination of
863 V, 1 | some other occasion perhaps resume the investigation of these.
864 IV, 16| means, which is, firmly to retain the resolution never to
865 II, 13| to be the same from its retaining the same color and figure:
866 II, 11| honey it contained; it still retains somewhat of the odor of
867 I, 1 | of leisure in a peaceable retirement, I will at length apply
868 II, 4 | previous opinion I will retrench all that can in the least
869 II, 12| attentively considered, and, retrenching all that does not belong
870 V, 12| the end adopt, it always returns to this, that it is only
871 V, 15| have no more truth than the reveries of my dreams ? But although,
872 II, 16| I find I have insensibly reverted to the point I desired;
873 Syn, 6 | senses are brought under review, while the means of avoiding
874 Ded, 2 | there are frequently greater rewards held out to vice than to
875 V, 11| constrained to admit that the rhombus, being a figure of four
876 V, 12| example, to take the case of a right-angled triangle, although it is
877 Ded, 2 | the Lord thereof? And in Romans, chap. i., it is said that
878 Pre, 1 | remote from the ordinary route that I thought it would
879 VI, 15| used by me as infallible rules by which to determine immediately
880 VI, 14| heat, hardness, etc., I safely conclude that there are
881 VI, 11| correcting, I think I may with safety conclude that I possess
882 Ded | TO THE VERY SAGE AND ILLUSTRIOUS~ ~THE DEAN
883 VI, 17| been formed by God for the sake of the motions which it
884 VI, 7 | wide experience by degrees sapped the faith I had reposed
885 III, 39| the source of the highest satisfaction of which we are susceptible
886 IV, 5 | Nevertheless this is not yet quite satisfactory; for error is not a pure
887 IV, 16| even good reason to remain satisfied on the ground that, if he
888 VI, 17| incorrectly, than when it satisfies the desire of the maker
889 Pre, 7 | indeed, I do not promise to satisfy others on all these subjects
890 I, 6 | to represent sirens and satyrs by forms the most fantastic
891 Ded, 6 | atheists, who are in general sciolists rather than ingenious or
892 Ded, 2 | be inferred from sacred Scripture, that the knowledge of God
893 III, 19| these ideas closely and scrutinizing them individually, in the
894 VI, 6 | the sky, the earth, the sea, and generally all the other
895 I, 4 | that I am in this place, seated by the fire, clothed in
896 I, 1 | and since I am in the secure possession of leisure in
897 Pre, 1 | conducting the Reason, and seeking Truth in the Sciences,"
898 | seeming
899 III, 33| possesses the perfection of self-existence, it must likewise, without
900 III, 33| other cause. For if it be self-existent, it follows, from what I
901 II, 5 | impression]; for the power of self-motion, as likewise that of perceiving
902 V, 10| fallacy lurks under the semblance of this objection: for because
903 VI, 4 | the same time examine what sense-perception is, and inquire whether
904 VI, 12| me more expressly or more sensibly ] than that I have a body
905 III, 8 | this sensation or idea (sensum vel ideam) of heat is produced
906 II, 14| events, by the common sense (sensus communis), as it is called,
907 Pre, 7 | whom these Meditations were sent for criticism before they
908 II, 9 | properly called perceiving (sentire), which is nothing else
909 VI, 9 | at least be made to exist separately, by the omnipotence of God;
910 VI, 9 | matters not by what power this separation is made, in order to be
911 Pre, 4 | its essence. But, in the sequel of this treatise I will
912 I, 10| chance, or by an endless series of antecedents and consequents,
913 Syn, 6 | no one of sound mind ever seriously doubted; but because, from
914 III, 38| idea in me, that it might serve, as it were, for the mark
915 Ded, 3 | Council, held under Leo X. (in session viii.), condemns these,
916 I, 12| judgment ], and guard with settled purpose against giving my
917 VI, 22| violently or more than usually shaken, the motion passing through
918 Syn, 2 | this Second Meditation, by showing that we cannot conceive
919 IV, 8 | or denying, pursuing or shunning, what is proposed to us
920 VI, 22| parts of the brain affords a sign to the mind on which it
921 VI, 15| narrower sense than when it signifies the sum of all the things
922 VI, 15| given me by nature merely to signify to my mind what things are
923 IV, 8 | bear a certain image and similitude of Deity. For although the
924 I, 8 | which regard merely the simplest and most general objects,
925 III, 35| contrary, the unity, the simplicity, or inseparability of all
926 Ded, 5 | that all is doubtful, few sincerely give themselves to the search
927 Ded, 6 | It is for you, in your singular wisdom, to judge of the
928 III, 8 | heat of the fire by which I sit. And it is very reasonable
929 V, 3 | sorts of sizes, figures, situations, and local motions; and,
930 II, 6 | thing, that is, a mind (mens sive animus), understanding,
931 Syn | SYNOPSIS OF THE SIX FOLLOWING MEDITATIONS~ ~
932 V, 3 | each of these all sorts of sizes, figures, situations, and
933 IV, 5 | that in proportion to the skill of the maker the perfection
934 IV, 8 | bestowed upon me; and however skillful a workman I suppose him
935 VI, 17| muscles, veins, blood, and skin, that although there were
936 I, 5 | consequently, I am in the habit of sleeping, and representing to myself
937 Pre, 1 | 1. I have already slightly touched upon the questions
938 I, 12| to arouse myself from my slumber, lest the time of laborious
939 I, 12| which this being has laid snares for my credulity; I will
940 Ded, 6 | the judgment of no other society, after the Sacred Councils,
941 VI, 19| any one of them how small soever it may be], which I cannot
942 Pre, 5 | may be, than by a true and solid, but subsequently received,
943 Ded, 6 | greater perspicacity and solidity, or greater wisdom and integrity
944 Syn, 5 | difficulties, but of these the solution will be found in the Replies
945 | somehow
946 | somewhere
947 V, 12| objects, I should know nothing sooner or more easily then the
948 V, 8 | sight appear to contain more sophistry than truth. For, as I have
949 Ded, 6 | all, and since the name of SORBONNE is of such authority, that
950 III, 31| my existence needed to be sought after. For the whole time
951 I, 12| not that Deity, who is sovereignly good and the fountain of
952 VI, 24| reason esteem it either a specter or phantom formed in my
953 II, 14| from the vulgar forms of speech: instead, therefore, of
954 VI, 22| through the medulla of the spine to the innermost parts of
955 Ded, 6 | learned, to lay aside the spirit of contradiction, and lead
956 III, 9 | word nature only a certain spontaneous impetus that impels me to
957 IV, 10| this the more freely and spontaneously in proportion as I was less
958 II, 5 | wind, or flame, or ether, spread through my grosser parts.
959 V, 12| the base is equal to the squares of the other two sides,
960 VI, 22| In the same way, when we stand in need of drink, there
961 VI, 12| affected when I feel pain, and stands in need of food and drink
962 Pre, 6 | places, they will yet hardly start any pressing objections,
963 Syn, 2 | stage of our progress, a statement of the reasons which establish
964 VI, 24| difference between the two states, in respect that our memory
965 Ded, 1 | it to you than by briefly stating the end which I proposed
966 VI, 7 | towers, looked like small statues, when viewed from the bottom
967 II, 5 | itself was I either did not stay to consider, or, if I did,
968 I, 9 | for a long time, obtained steady possession of my mind. How,
969 II, 7 | I aught besides ? I will stimulate my imagination with a view
970 VI, 17| is not indisposed to be stimulated to drink for its good by
971 | stop
972 V, 11| the idea of him from the storehouse of the mind, I am necessitated
973 II, 10| although, in truth, it may seem strange to say that I know and comprehend
974 II, 13| beings passing on in the street below, as observed from
975 III, 39| as far, at least, as the strength of my mind, which is to
976 VI, 23| parts of the nerves that stretch from the foot to the brain,
977 Pre, 5 | unwilling here to reply to these strictures from a dread of being, in
978 II, 14| forms, and when, as if I had stripped it of its vestments, I consider
979 IV, 8 | with it, and that render it stronger and more efficacious, as
980 Ded, 6 | who have always proved the strongest support of the Catholic
981 Ded, 5 | ability for metaphysical studies is less general than for
982 IV, 12| judge according to truth, I stumble upon it by chance, and do
983 I, 11| almost against my will, and subduing my belief; nor will I lose
984 Pre, 7 | satisfy others on all these subjects at first sight, nor arrogate
985 II, 10| wander, and will not yet submit to be restrained within
986 Ded, 2 | nevertheless, this cannot be submitted to infidels, who would consider
987 Ded, 6 | ingenious and the learned to subscribe to your judgment; and your
988 Pre, 5 | by a true and solid, but subsequently received, refutation of
989 VI, 2 | place, the difference that subsists between imagination and
990 II, 4 | perchance I inconsiderately substitute some other object in room
991 V, 5 | that its greatest side is subtended by its greatest angle, and
992 II, 5 | something extremely rare and subtile, like wind, or flame, or
993 II, 5 | in wasting my time amid subtleties of this sort. I prefer here
994 IV, 2 | to deceive is a mark of subtlety or power, yet the will testifies
995 I, 12| laborious wakefulness that would succeed this quiet rest, in place
996 IV, 10| of the understanding was succeeded by strong inclination in
997 Ded, 4 | they were aware I had made successful use in other instances,
998 VI, 24| me all of a sudden and as suddenly disappeared, as do the images
999 Ded, 2 | theologians, not only affirmed the sufficiency of natural reason for the
1000 VI, 7 | great difficulty in finding suitable answers to them; for as
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