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A juicy {{tag|Latin}}ism that hails not from the dusty halls of nineteenth century jurisprudence but the even dustier ones of ''seventeenth'' century [[metaphysics]]. [[Res extensa]] is — per [[Des Carter]], stuff that’s out there in the world, the existence of which depends on your frail perceptual apparatus, and may be contrasted with [[res cogitans]] — stuff that is only in your head, such as famously, one’s knowledge of one’s own existence. That one ''cannot'' plausibly doubt, because it needs to be true — that is, one needs to exist — for one to doubt it in the first place NOW GET ON WITH YOUR WORK AND STOP TRYING TO DISTRACT ME BLENKINSOP MINOR
A juicy {{tag|Latin}}ism that hails not from the dusty halls of nineteenth century jurisprudence but the even dustier ones of ''seventeenth'' century [[metaphysics]]. [[Res extensa]] is — per [[Des Carter]], stuff that’s out there in the world, the existence of which depends on your frail perceptual apparatus, and may be contrasted with [[res cogitans]] — stuff that is only in your head, such as famously, one’s knowledge of one’s own existence. That one ''cannot'' plausibly doubt, because it needs to be true — that is, one needs to exist — for one to doubt it in the first place NOW GET ON WITH YOUR WORK AND STOP TRYING TO DISTRACT ME BLENKINSOP MINOR
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A juicy Latinism that hails not from the dusty halls of nineteenth century jurisprudence but the even dustier ones of seventeenth century metaphysics. Res extensa is — per Des Carter, stuff that’s out there in the world, the existence of which depends on your frail perceptual apparatus, and may be contrasted with res cogitans — stuff that is only in your head, such as famously, one’s knowledge of one’s own existence. That one cannot plausibly doubt, because it needs to be true — that is, one needs to exist — for one to doubt it in the first place NOW GET ON WITH YOUR WORK AND STOP TRYING TO DISTRACT ME BLENKINSOP MINOR