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Essays 61 - 90
In five pages two of Descartes' arguments are analyzed in terms of the nature of object existence and the determination of dreamin...
In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...
image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...
He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...
In five pages this essay discusses Descartes' reality in terms of deconstruction and reconstruction. There are no other sources l...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
ideas and moods. Also, the desire for immortality may be attached to the brain. This idea paints the human being as nothing more t...
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 six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...
In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....
infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
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...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
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...
their Doubts, and to confirm them at last in a perfect Skepticism" (47). Locke...
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. ...
philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...
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...
going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...