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a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

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...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

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

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...

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...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

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

think, therefore I am" (Frost 2550. From this Descartes reasoned a body of ideas that he did not believe could be disputed, as th...

trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...

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

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

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

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

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

In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

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

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...

might Descartes for example deal with the problem? A student writing on this subject will want to point out that the primary dilem...

what Descartes believed to be the existence of humanity and humanitys understanding of what knowledge truly is. In a comparison of...

is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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