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[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs]

Full Idea

The action of thought by which one believes a thing, being different from that by which one knows that one believes it, they often exist the one without the other.

Gist of Idea

We can believe a thing without knowing we believe it

Source

René Descartes (A Discourse on Method [1637], §3.23)

Book Reference

Descartes,René: 'Discourse on Method/The Meditations', ed/tr. Sutcliffe,F.E. [Penguin 1968], p.46