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This research report looks at the ideas of both of these theorists. Armstrong's opposition to Descartes' ideas is duly noted. Thi...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
he saw in a cartoon as a symbol of painting. He started brushstroke paintings in 1965, and he has been making sculptures since the...
In seven pages a Girardian perspective is applied to an examination of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. Three sources are cit...
A 5 page review of the short story that was included in the book And We Sold the Rain.The three mysteries presented by the author ...
This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...
This research report looks at the ideas of these two philosophers through written works. Other works are explored such as those by...
This research report compares and contrasts the ideas of these two philosophers. Linear deductive reasoning is examined along with...
In six pages the question 'Does it make any difference whether or not people have free will?' is responded to by this trio of phil...