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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“the _Mind_ shall be nothing but _Motions_ in some Parts of an _Organical Body”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Objection IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
The conclusion Hobbes draws if reasoning is only the joining of names, words depend on imagination, and imagination on bodily motion.
Citation: "the _Mind_ shall be nothing but _Motions_ in some Parts of an _Organical Body" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Objection IV, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q11)
