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the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...
Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...
This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...
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...
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...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
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...
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)....
the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...
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...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
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...
the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...
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...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
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...