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for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

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

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

"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...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

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

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...

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...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

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

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...

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...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

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

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...