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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)....
the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...
that sensible things mean those items or realities that can be perceived by the senses of a human being. Philonous states the foll...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
they are wage laborers or business owners. To some extent, Marx has a point, but only to an extent. Kant has a different take on...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...
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...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...
of knowledge through experience, and so is the basis for synthetic statements that are linked to a postiori knowledge. Kant used ...
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...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
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...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
values that were presented to us in the middle of the 20th century. And, according to many, family values "is a code name devised ...
image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...