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

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...

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...

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

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

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

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 ...

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...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

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...

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

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

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

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

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

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

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

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...

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

which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...

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)....

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...