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In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

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

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...

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

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

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)....

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

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

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

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...

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...