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

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

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

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

The beliefs of Rene Descartes and other humanist philosophers are considered within the context of Turing's argument that a comput...

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

In seven pages this paper examines the overdetermination theory in a consideration of the Marxist class concept with the division ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

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

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...

considering them in De homine, and proposing that there was some kind of interaction between the two, Descartes provided a more cl...

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...