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understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

defines it as sort of a liveliness of vividness that accompanies the perception of a new idea. A belief, he says, is more than an...

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

In six pages this research paper considers An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in an analysis of Locke's representation of how...

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

awareness of the moment at hand and draws attention to the fleeting nature of existence that unifies all things. "The ideas of Se...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

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

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

In five pages Descartes' Meditation III is analyzed in terms of affirmations, denials, knowledge, and the existence of God. There...

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

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

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

This research report examines ideas by Descartes and internal aspects of one's being are explored. True knowledge is one concept h...

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

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

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

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

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

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...

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

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

Malcolm instead contends that if one is thinking, making decisions and so forth, he or she is obviously awake. Malcolm takes on ...