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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. ...

off in the matter of modern political philosophies, it is still important to question what is meant by "think" or what defines the...

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...

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

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

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

In six pages this research paper argues that essence is not preceded by existence with supporting philosophical arguments from Dav...

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

In two pages this paper examines that despite positive moral and religious consequences regarding Rene Descartes' dualism theory o...

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

In four pages this paper examines how the 'dream demon' of Rene Descartes was perceived by philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. The...

In fourteen pages this essay examines the perspectives of theorists and philosophers including Albert Einstein, Aristotle, and Ren...

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...

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...

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

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...

which he uses to argue that the senses are not based in the physical world. This is also supported by his argument that madmen may...

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...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...