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![]() ![]() Suppose someone knows for certain that the angle in a semicircle is a right angle, and thus that this angle and the diameter of the circle form a right-angled triangle. ![]() But it isn’t clear to me that this knowledge is complete andĪdequate, enabling me to be certain that I’m not mistaken in excluding body from my essence. Thus, I am a thinking thing, not a body, and body doesn’t come into the knowledge I have of myself.’īut so far as I can see, all that follows from this is that I can obtain some knowledge of myself without knowledge of the body. It goes on being certain to me that I exist. Available under Creative Commons-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Īntoine ArnauldI can’t see anywhere in the entire work an argument that could serve to prove this claim, apart from what is laid downĪt the start :‘I can deny that any body exists, or that anything is extended, but while I am thus denying, or thinking, ![]()
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