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# Title: Renati Des-Cartes Tractatus De Homine, Et De Formatione Foetus (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 178, Stück 4; Leibn. Marg. 178)
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Dere
poss
leron
Lcuju
COnCt
ICreCI.
eodem
COnCI.
erum
us est
OratO.
nostram
appella
iOneM
lUII
COrPI
P R A F A T IO.
corpus in mundolic, possumus dubitare, nihilomi-
nus tamen de Animx live mentis noltra Pxistentia
dubitare nequeamus (cum cercum lic, ex eo iplo,
quod dubitemus, necellario lequi mentem nostram
existere; Omnis enim modus, qualis est dubitatio, in
qua lumus, necestario subjectum, cui inest, lupponit,
nolque ad substantia, ad quam pertinet, cognitio-
nem deducie;) manifestum ekt, nos clare concipere
Animam, lirementem nostram, tanquam rem, live
uanquam substantiam existentem, quamris nullum
auC COrDuS, tan quam existens, COnCIPIAMUS, QuIM
etiam quamris negemus, aliquod in rerum natura
esse. Onde lequitur, notionem Mentis live Anima
Hominis nihilin se continere, quodullo modo ad
nocionem corporis pertinet; arque adeo Corpus ex
Amimam duas esse substantias realiter distinctas.
Ad haec, per substanciam spiricualem, aE PerCOF-
poream vel aliquid incelligimus, vel nihil; vel existi-
matnus cas a se differre, vel puramus caldem natura
ele.
Si dicamus, nosper eas nihil intelligere, nugamur.
Achi per unam e alceram rem quandam incellisa-
mus, explicetur, quidluc. Si dicamusetiam, illas na-
turaesse caldem, tori doctorum choro, imo a nobis
ipsis contradicimus. Cur enim dividimus substan-
tiam inspiritualem e corpoream, hillascaldem natu-
idesse aurumamus. Ouod sicredaus, illas differre, ict
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