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In the Sixth Meditation, Descartes writes
I first take notice here that there is a great difference between the mind and the body, in that the body, form its nature is always divisible and the mind is completely indivisible.
Descartes’s argument can be expressed as follows:
All bodies are divisible.
Use an Euler diagram to determine whether the argument is valid or invalid.
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