This work converted the Abbe Claude Picot to its author's philosophy. This work compares a sick man to a faulty clock, and compares separating a mountain from a valley to separating existence from God. Published with a series of objections by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Gassendi, it claims things are to be perceived "by the intellect alone" after asking if wax is still wax once exposed to flame. It presents innate, invente
This work converted the Abbe Claude Picot to its author's philosophy. This work compares a sick man to a faulty clock, and compares separating a mountain from a valley to separating existence from God. Published with a series of objections by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Gassendi, it claims things are to be perceived "by the intellect alone" after asking if wax is still wax once exposed to flame. It presents innate, invented, and adventitious distinctions between ideas of God in its third section Featuring a fourth section "On Truth and Falsity", this work claims the human mind is better known than the body. For 10 points, name this work which expanded on its author's Discourse on Method, a work of Rene Descartes.
This work converted the Abbe Claude Picot to its author's philosophy.
{Meditations} on First Philosophy or {Meditationes} de {Prima Philosophia}