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idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

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

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

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...

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...

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

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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 ...

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 ...

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

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

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...

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

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

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...

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...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

"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...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

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...

the other mind theory. "...The problem lies in the belief that in looking for evidence of other minds, we need to start off from ...