An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

If you can clearly think of 2 things apart, God could make them exist apart, so they are different things. You can think of your mind without your body. A foot can be cut off and nothing is taken from the mind. So mind and body are 2 separate things.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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