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He shows that men are capable of recognising truth, and that, because mind acts as a real cause, they will act on it when they perceive it clearly.
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If you attend to an object, you respond to it more quickly, and perceive it more clearly (Carrasco, 2011).
"Story is for a human as water is for a fish," he writes: so deeply essential that we may not clearly perceive it.
The more clearly I perceived the value of what I was writing about, the more clearly others could perceive it as well.
Returning to those works, I perceive more clearly that the future it let me cheerfully inhabit was in fact a zone of grim unease.
(AT 7 196) Perhaps Descartes thinks the situation with dreaming parallels that of waking life: those who are sufficiently tired, or otherwise perceptually inattentive, "cannot really" perceive truths clearly and distinctly, though it may seem to them that they do.
Although it can always be hard to perceive things clearly in family settings, there is something dreadfully direct about such a rule against seeing.
He tentatively formulates the following candidate for a criterion of truth: "I now seem [videor] to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (Med. 3, AT 7 35).
At the beginning of the Third Meditation, Descartes declares "I now seem to be able to lay it down as a general rule that whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true" (7 35).
The penumbras that liberals perceive so clearly in the Constitution are just too elusive for this moderate old man's eyes.
It will not do, for example, to claim that evil is nothing but a subjective illusion, that if only we could perceive things clearly we would see evil does not exist.
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