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'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Meditations' and 'Truth and Probability'
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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons
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Some cause must unite the separate temporal sections of a person [Descartes]
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16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 7. Self and Thinking
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Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes]
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I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes]
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For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 1. Nature of Free Will
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Our 'will' just consists of the feeling that when we are motivated to do something, there are no external pressures [Descartes]
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16. Persons / F. Free Will / 4. For Free Will
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My capacity to make choices with my free will extends as far as any faculty ever could [Descartes]
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