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thinking as he approaches the whole question of the relationship of mind and matter and advances his revolutionary epistemology . Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he “ ... believed it to be ...
thinking as he approaches the whole question of the relationship of mind and matter and advances his revolutionary epistemology . Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he “ ... believed it to be ...
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So that when I speak of cause , and efficient cause , I only mean certain affections of the mind , that cause certain changes in the body ; or certain powers and properties in bodies , that work a change in the mind .
So that when I speak of cause , and efficient cause , I only mean certain affections of the mind , that cause certain changes in the body ; or certain powers and properties in bodies , that work a change in the mind .
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Let us then suppose the mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store , which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it ...
Let us then suppose the mind to be , as we say , white paper , void of all characters , without any ideas ; how comes it to be furnished ? Whence comes it by that vast store , which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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