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    We have no conception of the body as thinking in any way ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Every kind of thought present in us belongs to the soul.

    We have no conception of the body as thinking in any way at all.

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    Descartes’ criterion for determining whether a function belongs to the body or soul was as follows: “anything we experience as being in us, and which we see can also exist in wholly inanimate bodies, must be attributed only to our body. On the other hand, anything in us which we cannot conceive in any way as capable of belonging to a body must be attributed to our soul. Thus, because we have no conception of the body as thinking in any way at all, we have reason to believe that every kind of tho

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