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Essays 271 - 300
This paper considers how Descartes used doubt to prove his own existence. There are three sources in this five page paper. ...
Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at skepticism in philosophy. The skeptical writings of Montaigne, Pascal, and Descartes...
1585 The beginning rudiments of mathematics began practically at the beginning of mans reign on the earth. The first indiv...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...
the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...
the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...
accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...
way they are like human beings who are mentally handicapped. Animals have souls and are loving and lovable, but they do not have t...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...
body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...
really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
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...
is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...
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. ...
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 ...
of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...