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thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....
there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...
function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...
8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...
there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...
the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...
This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...
In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...
in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...
In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
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...
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...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
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...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...