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8.What is Descartes belief in Human Free Will and Understanding?

(1)Free will is infinite.

(2)Understanding is very limited

(3)Its within our ability to restrict our judgement to those matters we perceive clearly and distinctly.

(4)Descartes wrote a book he hoped would one day become a textbook called "Principles of Philosophy".

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