Conway Asks a Series of Questions About the Spirit: "Why

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Conway asks a series of questions about the spirit: "Why does it require a corporeal eye so wonderfully formed and organized, that I can see by it? Why does it need a corporeal light, to see corporeal objects? Why is it requisite, that the image of the object should be sent to it, through the eye, that it may see it?" Conway uses this to support which of the following claims:

• A) Spirit can exist without the body but the body cannot exist without the spirit.
• B) Body can exist without the spirit but the spirit cannot exist without the body.
• C) Spirit and body are originally in their first substance but one and the same thing.
• D) Both spirit and body are illusions, hence they have no material existence.

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