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

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...

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

of that century, the French philosopher, Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) developed his metaphysical theories known as "occasionali...

upon life are not likely to be duplicated in the near future. Indeed, the praise for such progression during these two periods ca...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

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

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

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...

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...

one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...

The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...

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...

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...

yet highly controversial Theory of Evolution in 1859, a theory impressive in its presentation and scientific reasoning but unmista...

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

In eleven pages this paper defines rationalism and empiricism in a consideration of the philosophical views of Berkeley, Hume, Loc...

God is the world and the universe and it is just there. At the same time, he may be seen as both the cause of, and the universe, i...

In five pages this paper discusses how the philosophies of Descartes and Heidegger manifest themselves in this short story by Samu...

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...

In seven pages this chapter is discussed in terms of how the author portrayed the philosophical influences of such theorists as Hu...

In five pages this paper examines life's purpose and God as represented by these worldviews with such works as The Antichrist, Med...

This research report looks at how Descartes would feel about Plato's ideas. Would he agree with Plato in his ideas about death? Th...

In ten pages this paper examines what philosophy represents as considered in Philosophy The Quest For Truth by Louis R. Pojman a...

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

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