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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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

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

their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...

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

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

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...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...