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In his Ideas, Husserl says: "The theory of categories must begin absolutely from this most radical of all distinctions of being — being as consciousness [res cogitans] and being as being that 'manifests' itself in consciousness, 'transcendent' being [res extensa]."
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"Between consciousness [res cogitans] and reality [res extensa] there yawns a veritable abyss of meaning."
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Husserl continually refers to this distinction and precisely in the form in which Descartes espressed it: res cogitans - res extensa.
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"Between consciousness [res cogitans] and reality [res extensa] there yawns a veritable abyss of meaning."
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Husserl continually refers to this distinction and precisely in the form in which Descartes espressed it: res cogitans - res extensa.
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In his Ideas, Husserl says: "The theory of categories must begin absolutely from this most radical of all distinctions of being — being as consciousness [res cogitans] and being as being that 'manifests' itself in consciousness, 'transcendent' being [res extensa]."
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While the term "substance," meaning the indestructible stuff of the universe, was retained by Descartes in his discussions of res extensa, the mechanical philosophers were committed to a corpuscularian theory in which objects were temporary aggregates of solid, indestructible particles with various figures and motions, and all change occurred through their collisions, entanglings, and so on.
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
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His answer: a thinking thing (res cogitans) as opposed to a physical thing extended in three-dimensional space (res extensa).
The 11 Most Important Philosophical Quotations William Harryman 2007
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BBC | Gulf dead zone to be biggest ever A chamada zona morta do golfo do México, uma extensa àrea de oceano onde a poluição e a acumulação de fertilizantes é tão grande que não existe oxigénio e a fauna desaparece, será este ano a maior de sempre.
Leituras Artur 2007
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More also argued that God who is an infinite spirit is an extended being (res extensa).
The Cambridge Platonists Hutton, Sarah 2007
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