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““R5 Passive Knower: “If, whenever I have to make a judgement, I restrain my will so that it extends to what the intellect clearly and distinctly reveals, and no further, then it is quite impossible for me to go wrong” (Descartes, PWD 2:43).””

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“Patiently following after nature ultimately enables us, in Descartes’ words, to “make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature” (PWD 1:142–43).”

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