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

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...

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

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...

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 ...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

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

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

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...

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 ...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

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...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...