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Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...

of his faculties he created the hyperbolic doubt. Hyperbolic doubt is when one sets aside the information gained by any sense that...

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

mind may receive sensory perceptions from the brain, but it is able to act freely, based on thought processes. While it may have ...

In five pages this research paper discusses Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in terms of deductive reasoning and an eval...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...

He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

In five pages the sense of wonder Descartes conjures in his Third Meditation regarding the existence of God is examined. There ar...

In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...

In two pages the Four Noble Truths and how meditation fits into these beliefs are discussed in an examination of Buddhism, with th...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...

People play devils advocate all the time, negating valid premises. This is how high priced attorneys win impossible cases and it i...

In five pages this paper examines the connections with 'a posteriori' and 'a priori' knowledge, contingent truth and necessary tru...

This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...

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

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

This research report looks at how knowledge is acquired according to these two theorists. A great deal of information is contained...

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

myriad philosophies by which people live their lives that help to maintain order and a sense of direction where otherwise there wo...