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Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Jacquette’s reason for speaking of divisibility “into like parts” is that Descartes does not deny that we can distinguish different faculties within the mind, such as willing, perceiving, and conceiving.

But the fact is, each time the mind does any of these, the whole mind is basically doing it, barring dissociative states like hypnosis. Where the dissociation is of course a kind of illusion. And the whole mind is in a way in that illusion on both its sides, on the side of fooling and on the side of being fooled (except deeper states where only the latter remains).

Mar 5, 2015, 1:31:55 PM

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