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"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

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

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

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

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

having been created by a supreme and ethereal being, whose own creation is inherent to that of all He created. Based upon his def...

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

do not assert any observation sentences (Yancy, 1995). And in fact, science and philosophy truly have a lot in common. Both scient...

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

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

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...

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

In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

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

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 Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...