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significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...
mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...
In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...
Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...
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...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...
In two pages this essay considers Descartes' doubt methodology as it is represented in this Meditation. There is no bibliography ...
In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...
In six pages Descartes' arguments regarding reality and existence as revealed in Meditations are examined along with Searle's obje...
In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...
In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...
In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...
In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...
In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...
In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
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...
thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....