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

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

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

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

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

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

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

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

Descartes, of course, is remembered as the "father of modern philosophy". A rationalist, Descartes was particularly concerned wit...

and escalate directly to the top to absolute knowledge. Step one in his groundbreaking compilation of scientifically conscious th...