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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...

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

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

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

"I easily understand that, if some body exists, with which my mind is so conjoined and united as to be able, as it were, to consid...

This research report examines the theories of Descartes and how knowledge and the intellect relate to experiential knowledge. The ...

Jung recognized that personality type affects the way that an individual learns and deals with these transitions (Borg and Shapiro...

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...

Management In the past it may be argued that knowledge management was a potential source of competitive advantage, but i...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

in Greece since 4 BCE, those who dared to doubt or who said it was okay to express doubts and questions werent held in high regard...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

be deceiving. This is his first error, but we can guard against it be not placing "absolute confidence in that by which we have e...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

critics, his reputation and fame has never been truly compromised. He has added a great deal in terms of thought in a variety of d...

like knowledge itself, is secure. Indeed, according to Plato correct opinion is a guide to knowledge. To be correct, opinions th...

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

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...

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)....

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

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

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

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...