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Ideas for 'Dthat', 'On the Principles of Indiscernibles' and 'Meditations'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual

2297	If I can separate two things in my understanding, then God can separate them in reality [Descartes]
	Full Idea: My ability clearly and distinctly to understand one thing without another suffices to make me certain that the one thing is different from the other, since they can be separated from each other (at least by God).
	From: René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §6.78)

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

3628	Substance cannot be conceived or explained to others [Gassendi on Descartes]
	Full Idea: The alleged naked, or rather hidden, substance of wax is something that we can neither ourselves conceive nor explain to others.
	From: comment on René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2.31) by Pierre Gassendi - Objections to 'Meditations' (Fifth) 273