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Common terms and phrasesabsolute according argument Aristotle attribute Bacon believed Berkeley billiard ball body called Cartesian cause century certainty Christian Church conceived conception conclusion course definition demonstrated Descartes distinct divine doctrine effect empirical empiricism existence experience external fact follows Galileo geometry God's held Hence Hobbes Hobbes's Hobbesian human Hume Hume's hylas Ibid identity imagination inference infinite innate ideas instance intuitive knowledge knowledge Leibniz live Locke Locke's Luther Machiavelli mathematical matter means medieval merely metaphysical method mind monad moral motion move necessary never object observed particular perceive perception Petrarch phantasm philonous philosophical sceptic philosophy physics planets Plato political possible principle properties proposition qualities question rational reality reason relation religion religious Renaissance Scholasticism scientific method sense simple ideas Socrates soul sovereign Spinoza substance such-and-such supposed teleological theorems theory things thought tion triangle true truth understand universe velocity whole words Bibliographic information |