Descartes thinks that the conception of error is a lack, rather than a real thing dependent on God. ... He does this by saying, "I can clearly and distinctly conceive my mind's existence without my body, whatever I can clearly and distinctly conceive God could make true, and whatever God could make true is possible." ... The substance of God is pure spirit. ... She believes that the only difference between them lies in the fact that the stone will have fewer spiritual particles and the human being will have more. So basically everything is the same just containing different spiritual part...

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Epicurus argued that reality consisted of invisible and indivisible particles of free-falling matter called atoms randomly colliding in the void. ... The belief that immaterial things do not exist, lead to believe that there is no God. ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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