 | wm.t. harris - 1870 - 396 pages
...distinct concept of them there is contained some kind of extension, but of intelligence none. Besides, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive facuity of feeling, that is, of receiving and recognizing the ideas of sensible things ; hut it would... | |
 | Robert Jardine - 1874 - 338 pages
...appears to have attributed to it an independent existence. For example, Descartes says:* "Further, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive...some other thing, another active faculty capable of forming and producing those ideas." And he soon concludes that the active power of producing these... | |
 | René Descartes - 1880 - 498 pages
...and distinct concept there is contained some sort of extension, but no intellection at all. Farther, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive...some other thing, another active faculty capable of forming and producing those ideas. But this active faculty cannot be in me Qin as far as I am but a... | |
 | Robert Jardine - 1885 - 368 pages
...appears to have attributed to it an independent existence. For example, Descartes says : * " Further, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and talcing knowledge of the ideas of sensible things ; but this would be useless to me if there did not... | |
 | René Descartes - 1925 - 486 pages
...and distinct concept there is contained some sort of extension, but no intellection at all. Farther, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive...some other thing, another Active faculty capable of forming and producing those ideas. Sut this active faculty cannot be in me [in as far as I am but a... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1925 - 488 pages
...sujjsta^ce^jsiinca in t.hp.ir distinct concept thereJg^cQntai^ed gome sort of extension, t^ll . Farther, I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive...would be useless to me, if there did not also exist in me,^orjn_^ojfle_oJihfir_J:hing, another Active faculty capable of forming and produdngjhosej^eas. But... | |
 | René Descartes - 1927 - 474 pages
...some sort of extension found to be present, but no intellection at all. There is certainly further in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and recognising the ideas of sensible things, but this would be useless to me [and I could in no way avail... | |
 | Susan Bordo - 1987 - 162 pages
...for believing that they proceed from the things they seem to represent. There is certainly further in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and recognizing the ideas of sensible things, but this would be useless to me ... if there were not either... | |
 | R L Winder, S K Probert, I. A. Beeson - 1997 - 286 pages
...experience only if we possess ideas with which to interpret it." (Aune 1970: 28-9) Descartes himself argued: "I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain...receiving and taking knowledge of the ideas of sensible [physical] things; but this would be useless to me, if there did not also exist in me, or in some other... | |
 | René Descartes - 1997 - 436 pages
...some sort of extension found to be present, but no intellection at all. There is certainly further in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and recognising the ideas of sensible things, but this would be useless to me [and I could in no way avail... | |
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I cannot doubt but that there is in me a certain passive faculty of perception, that is, of receiving and taking knowledge of the ideas of sensible things; but this would be useless to me, if there did not also exist in me, or in some other thing, another... 
