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Feeling Pain and Being in Pain, second edition - Page 26
by Nikola Grahek - 2011 - 198 pages
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René Descartes - Philosophy - 1927 - 474 pages
...as repugnant to God's goodness for the one to have a deceitful nature as it is for the other. And as a clock composed of wheels and counter-weights no...it entirely satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if I consider the body of a man as being a sort of machine so built up and composed of nerves,...
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Key Philosophical Writings

René Descartes - Philosophy - 1997 - 436 pages
...nature as it is for the other. And as a clock composed of wheels and counter-weights no less exacdy observes the laws of nature when it is badly made,...it entirely satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if I consider the body of a man as being a sort of machine so built up and composed of nerves,...
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History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction

Jacalyn Duffin - Medical - 1999 - 452 pages
...man in full health ... A clock, composed of wheels and counterweights, is no less exactly obeying all the laws of nature when it is badly made and does not mark the time correctly than when it completely fulfills the intention of its maker; so also the human...
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Minds and Bodies: An Introduction with Readings

Robert Wilkinson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 248 pages
...a deceitful nature as it is for the other. o And as a clock composed of wheels and counter- weights no less exactly observes the laws of nature when it...and does not show the time properly, than when it entirelv satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if 1 consider the body of a man as being a sort...
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Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes

Dennis Des Chene - Philosophy - 2001 - 208 pages
...error than that the other should. Just as a watch constructed from wheels and weights no less precisely observes the laws of nature when it is badly made and does not correctly indicate the hours than when it satisfies every desire of its maker; so too if I consider...
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Discourse on Method and Meditations

Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross - Philosophy - 2003 - 134 pages
...have a deceitful nature as it is for the other. And as a clock composed of wheels and counter- weights no less exactly observes the laws of nature when it...it entirely satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if I consider the body of a man as being a sort of machine so built up and composed of nerves,...
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Discourse on Method and Meditations

Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross - Philosophy - 2003 - 134 pages
...composed of wheels and counter- weights no less exactly ohserves the laws of nature when it is hadly made, and does not show the time properly, than when...it entirely satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if I consider the hody of a man as heing a sort of machine so huilt up and composed of nerves,...
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Selections

René Descartes - 1927 - 466 pages
...as repugnant to God's goodness for the one to have a deceitful nature as it is for the other. And as a clock composed of wheels and counter-weights no...it entirely satisfies the wishes of its maker, and as, if I consider the body of a man as being a sort of machine so built up and composed of nerves,...
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