Meditations on First Philosophy

John Veitch's translation, 1901. 6 parts, about 22,994 words, 2 hours of reading. Source edition.

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This proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me, or conceived in my mind.
Meditation II · Read it in Part II
Some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me.
Meditation I · Read it in Part I
I am not only lodged in my body as a pilot in a vessel, but I am besides so intimately conjoined, and as it were intermixed with it, that my mind and body compose a certain unity.
Meditation VI · Read it in Part VI
Descartes holds up a piece of wax, notes that every sensible quality of it changes as it melts, and concludes that what he grasps as the wax itself is grasped by the mind alone.
Meditation II · Read it in Part II

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by John Veitch. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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