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Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Again, the pen as a whole does not move in exactly the same way as its lower end; on the contrary, the upper part of the pen seems to have a quite different and opposite movement. This enables us to understand how all the movements of other animals can come about, even though we refuse to allow ...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: w. 1628, published in 1684, 1701
"Secondly, when an external sense organ is stimulated by an object, the figure which it receives is conveyed at one and the same moment to another part of the body known as the 'common' sense, without any entity really passing from the one to the other. In exactly the same way I understand that w...
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
