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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 ...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

entire world does not revolve around them? Descartess dreaming argument likely suggests more than ones inability to determine whet...

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

the body dies (Island of Freedom, 2003). Although Descartes saw the mind and body as two separate substances and also having diff...

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

dominated by Aristotelianism (McMullen, 2002). Due to the dominance of Aristotelianism, the idea of mechanical philosophy did not...

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 ...

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

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

While in times past salves were made of animal fats, today olive oil is the more common choice for the carrier oil....

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

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

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...

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

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...