Discourse on the Method, part 4, ¶ 6-1 (ChatGPT)

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Many people find it hard to understand this truth, and even to grasp what their own mind truly is, because they rarely think beyond physical objects. They’re so used to thinking through imagination, which is limited to material things, that they believe anything that can’t be imagined isn’t understandable.

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translation (ChatGPT) of

But the reason which leads many to persuade themselves that there is a difficulty in knowing this truth, and even also in knowing what their mind really is, is that they never raise their thoughts above sensible objects, and are so accustomed to consider nothing except by way of imagination, which is a mode of thinking limited to material objects, that all that is not imaginable seems to them not intelligible.