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Alexander Almeida

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From The Irreducible Instant: Descartes’ Thinking Substance by John C. Brady

…werful demon, or a benign chair-body in the world, or a complex computer program, or anything else. The perception, considered…werful demon, or a benign chair-body in the world, or a complex computer program, or anything else. The perception, considered in itself, has an immediacy that an inference or deduction based on it, no matter how ‘intuitive and swift’, does not.

From The Irreducible Instant: Descartes’ Thinking Substance by John C. Brady

-immediat…ose modes he has listed, is discovered through the process of radical doubt (a subtractive method). Its nature, then, needs to have this immediacy because any non-immediate (mediated), seemingly mental mode can be doubted. For example, when I perceive a chair here it very quickly suggests to me the belief that there is a…

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Um dia precisamos desistir de querer ser alguém.

Mahadeva