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Essays 271 - 300
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...
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...
it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
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 dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...
we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...