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cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

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

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

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

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

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...

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...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

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

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

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

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 thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

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

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...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

believe in absolutes. Much of what the philosopher contends seems to provide support for that view. Aristotle says, in line with t...

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...

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...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

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...