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conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...
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...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...
rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...
way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...
enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...
the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...
which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
beyond their own myopic existence. Can conscious experience be separate from the brain, and can conscious experience wield causal...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...
upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...
of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...