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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...

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...

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

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

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

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...

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...

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

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