Descartes: Die Sinne

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„Alles nämlich, was ich bisher am ehesten für wahr gehalten habe, verdanke ich den Sinnen oder der Vermittlung der Sinne. Nun aber bin ich dahintergekommen, daß diese uns bisweilen täuschen, und es ist ein Gebot der Klugheit, denen niemals ganz zu trauen, die uns auch nur einmal getäuscht haben.“ (p. 15f.) #Descartes #Sinne

Locke: Modes

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„By repeating this idea in our minds, and adding the repetitions together, we come by the COMPLEX ideas of the MODES of it. Thus, by adding one to one, we have the complex idea of a couple; by putting twelve units together we have the complex idea of a dozen; and so of a score or a million, or any other number.“ (Book II, Chap. XVI, §2) #Locke #modes

Descartes: Idées

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„D’oû il suit que nos idées ou notions, étant des choses réelles, et qui viennent de Dieu, en tout ce en quoi elles sont claires et distinctes, ne peuvent en cela être que vraies.“ (p. 62) #Descartes #idée #notion #ChosesRéelles

Locke: Unity

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„Amongst all the ideas we have, as there is none suggested to the mind by more ways, so there is none more simple, than that of UNITY, or one: it has no shadow of variety or composition in it: every object our senses are employed about; every idea in our understandings; every thought of our minds, brings this idea along with it. And therefore it is the most intimate to our thoughts, as well as it is, in its agreement to all other things, the most universal idea we have. For number applies itself to men, angels, actions, thoughts; everything that either doth exist or can be imagined.“ (Book II, Chap. XVI, §1) #Locke #unity