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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...
In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...
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...
it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...
accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...
Some (not Descartes) focused on the fact that reality is mainly material - these are the materialists (What is Philosophy?). Other...
This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...
able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatically programmed for response. The student might surmise that o...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
the Western tradition. This is because they combine powerful introspection with a radical desire for the discovery of truth that, ...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...
He didnt believe that going to church necessarily related to a relationship with God. He felt that church almost got in the way o...
defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...
The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...
Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...
you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...
simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...
This, he asserted, was mans freedom of the will, in which people are able to determine their own choices, rather than be automatic...
This research report looks at Hume and Descartes and their ideas about reason. It is claimed that Hume minimized the use of reason...
In six pages human nature is the focus in an overview that contrasts Descartes' philosophy with that of George Berkeley's with cri...
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