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Pointing back to previous statements with the wax analogy, only intellect is capable of perceiving in clear and distinct manners, and thus the certainty of the thinking being to exist as long as the person is thinking comes from pure understanding through intellect; [...]

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As with clarification regarding the senses, one may additionally argue that after the changeability, flexibility and extension of the wax are stripped from the characters of the wax, it is still the imagination judging what the naked wax really is or the nature of it (AT VII 272). However if [...]

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To clarify her conclusion, the meditator reasons that senses are not responsible for knowing and she gives the wax experience to prove it. The wax is first observed in all five qualities: taste, smell, touch, sound, and sight, and also by the shape and the size. The meditator observes that [...]

In Second Meditation in Volume VII of the standard edition of Descartes (AT VII), the meditator’s search for certainty leads to the conclusion of the kind of being she is, along with the conditions that support her existence, and how the nature of the mind is better known than the nature of the bodies. The [...]

Past months I have been doing research on people from almost all over the world. And it comes to my attention that most people willingly accept and praise the things they enjoy or can do them by themselves, but when it comes to shocking moments, or amazing situations that they can’t perform or come even [...]