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a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

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

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

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

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...

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

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...

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

1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...

This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

to the first two in that people have some former knowledge in order to "know" someone, or "know" how to do something (Hospers, 196...

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...

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

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

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

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...