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certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
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...
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 is divided into three sections to explore ideas on this important philosopher. Various issues examined includ...
In five pages human perception and the theories connected with it are examined and then the perception theories of this trio of ph...
approaches to subjectivity have been characterized by an overwhelming modern anxiety not to be Descartes (206). Descartes pictur...
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...
In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...
chooses to present. In the following we note one particular focus as it pertains to divine knowledge. Maritain states that, "divin...
with most of the guests as a large part of his life had been shaped by political factors. When he was...
human senses can be mislead. This is seen when there are individuals close and far away, with the difference in size seen by the e...
know as the scientific method, which is still used today for ascertaining reliable facts about the natural world. To accomplish hi...
Meditation, the three skeptical arguments are that one does not really know if he or she is dreaming, that one does not know wheth...
According to Descartes a human being used his facilities to gain knowledge of his own world. No one would particularly argue with ...
of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...
little consequence when it came to the knowing the true nature of something. However, Montaigne seems to limit himself in that he ...
what state they are in. Here, Descartes distinguishes the mind from the soul. He writes: "It further occurred to me that I was nou...