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"Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)"
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Date: 1748, 1749
"I always use the word imagine, because I am of the opinion that everything is imagined, and that all the parts of the soul may be justly reduced to the imagination only, which forms them all; and thus the judgment, reason, and memory are not absolute faculties of the soul, but real modifications...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1748, 1749
"Have we one argument of this sort to convince us that man alone is enlighten'd with the rays of reason, from which all other creatures are excluded?"
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
