In the Will to Power Nietzche quotes Descartes
omne illud verum est, quod clare et distincte percipitur
However I cannot find the quoted source. Can anyone identify it?
In the Will to Power Nietzche quotes Descartes
omne illud verum est, quod clare et distincte percipitur
However I cannot find the quoted source. Can anyone identify it?
Descartes' Meditations (1641), III.2 :
illud omne esse verum, quòd valde clare & distincte percipio.
John Veitch English translation of 1901 :
all that is very clearly and distinctly apprehended (conceived) is true.
See also Principia Philosophiae (1644), Pars prima, XXX :
omnia qua clare percepimus, vera esse.
In Descartes's Meditations, I found
illud omne esse verum, quòd valde clare & distincte percipio.
MEDITATIO III; De Deo, quòd existat; par. 2. http://www.wright.edu/~charles.taylor/descartes/meditation3l.html
Another source puts the quote in Meditations III, par. 1. http://www.unicaen.fr/puc/sources/prodescartes/consult/descartes/Oeuvres/Oeuvres_Descartes/meditationes.xml/meditationes_objection_5_3
That is the closest example I could find. Perhaps Descartes wrote a similar quote elsewhere.