Sentence examples similar to I distinctly perceived from inspiring English sources

Descartes sometimes speaks of the possible as clearly and distinctly perceived.

Yet the truth of what is clearly and distinctly perceived has yet to be established.

Provided we refrain from assenting to what is not clearly and distinctly perceived, our judgments are guaranteed to be true.

But unless each step of the argument is clearly and distinctly perceived, Descartes should not be making the argument.

A clearly and distinctly perceived possibility has some ontological status, and the question is what exactly that is.

Just as the will is compelled to assent to what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be true, so it is compelled to choose what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be good: "if I always saw clearly what was true and good, I should never have to deliberate about the right judgement or choice" (AT VII 58/CSM II 40).

The same, then, can be said for the meditator's knowledge grounded in some clearly and distinctly perceived causal principles that God exists.

Descartes observes that the cogito result is known only from the fact that it is "clearly and distinctly" perceived by the intellect (7 35).

Early in the Third Meditation, Descartes says that the epistemic basis of the cogito is, at this juncture, simply that it is clearly and distinctly perceived.

It is Aquinas who lies behind Descartes's view that first principles in the sciences are clearly and distinctly perceived by reason.

Descartes first argues from clearly and distinctly perceived premises to the conclusion that an all-perfect God exists; he then argues from the premise that an all-perfect God exists to the conclusion that whatever is clearly and distinctly perceived is true.