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Genre:
"Prose"
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Nationality of Author:
"French"
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Work title:
"Meditations on First Philosophy"
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Literary Period:
"Civil War and Commonwealth"
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"Early Modern"
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"Early Seventeenth Century"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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Date: 1641
"I am not that structure of limbs which is called a human body. I am not even some thin vapour which permeates the limbs - a wind, fire, air, breath, or whatever I depict in my imagination; for these are things which I have supposed to be nothing."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1641
"And whenever my preconceived belief in the supreme power of God comes to mind, I cannot but admit that it would be easy for him, if he so desired, to bring it about that I go wrong even in those matters which I think I see utterly clearly with my mind's eye."
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)