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questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

would be no hope of redemption or change. Frankl supports this position by contending that mans search for meaning "is the primar...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...

the science of anatomy: but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body" (Shel...

In five pages the existence of natural rights is considered within the context of John Locke's concepts and as they are manifested...