10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHILIAGON»
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chiliagon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chiliagon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental ...
If it were true it could only be a contingent truth about us, and would no more
prove that space and time were a priori than my inability to imagine a chiliagon
shows the impossibility of any such figure.18 The example of the chiliagon is
inept.
2
Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland
9 Comparisons of the sort Descartes gives above between the confused image
and the clear concept of a chiliagon ... that "although you perceive that the word '
chiliagon' signifies a figure with a thousand angles, that is just the meaning of the
...
3
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
But if I desire to think of a chiliagon, I certainly conceive truly that it is a figure
composed of a thousand sides, just as easily as I conceive of a triangle that it is a
figure of three sides only; but I cannot in any way imagine the thousand sides of a
...
4
The Philosophy of Mind: Classical Problems/contemporary Issues
But if I desire to think of a chiliagon, I certainly conceive truly that it is a figure
composed of a thousand sides, just as easily as I conceive of a triangle that it is a
figure of three sides only; but I cannot in any way imagine the thousand sides of a
...
Brian Beakley, Peter Ludlow,
1992
5
Descartes's Dreams: Imagination in The Meditations
Thus, the imaginary idea about obscure and indistinct representation (e.g., the
imaginary idea of a chiliagon) cannot be determined to be a materially true idea.
Thus this second possibility ought to be rejected. The third possibility agrees with
...
6
A Companion to Rationalism
This is important because it suggests that Descartes may not be distinguishing a
pure intellection of a chiliagon from an imagistic representation of the same figure
. Rather, he may be distinguishing two aspects of a single distinct imagining ...
7
An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics: ...
The chiliagon and the limits of visualization Hume's example of interpolating the
missing shade of blue is the standard one of the capacities of the imagination.
The traditional illustration of the limits of the imagination is Descartes' example of
...
8
Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy: A Study of the Moral ...
Descartes considers here for example the idea of chiliagon. On the one hand, we
understand the idea of a chiliagon as a polygon that has a thousand straight
sides and a thousand angles, but, on the other hand, we cannot clearly and ...
9
The Philosophy of the Imagination in Vico and Malebranche
The pagan mind uniforms things to its ideas, which have an iconographic
character. Descartes uses the chiliagon as an example in his Sixth Meditation.
He, too, wanted to demonstrate the difference between pure intellection and
imagination.
Paolo Fabiani, Giorgio A. Pinton,
2009
10
First Philosophy: Concise Edition, second edition: ...
But if I want to think of a chiliagon, although I understand that it is a figure
consisting of a thousand sides just as well as I understand the triangle to be a
three-sided figure, I do not in the same way imagine the thousand sides or see
them as if ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHILIAGON»
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