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This research report examines the ideas of the philosopher Rene Descartes and how he views reality. Is only the physical real? Ide...

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

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. ...

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

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

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

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

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

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

In five pages this paper consides how films reflect some type of philosophy and the example of the 2000 film staring Sean Connery ...

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

In nine pages this paper discusses the General Electric Matrix and Boston Consulting Group Matrix in this overview of the advantag...

In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

In five pages this report examines these concepts from the perspectives of Democritus, Rene Descartes, and Aristotle. Six sources...

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

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

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...

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

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 ...

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

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 dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...

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

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...