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In six pages this paper examines how knowledge theories are philosophically conceptualized by Kant, Hume, Spinoza, and Descartes. ...

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

In nine pages the contemporary world is related to the Discourse and Meditations of Rene Descartes. Four sources are cited in the...

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

In five pages Rene Descartes' Meditation II is examined in terms of the moral complexities of the philosopher's assertion 'I am, I...

and change. He did not perceive the world as having changed greatly, but instead perceived the same world in a much different lig...

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...

Rene Descartes' Second Meditation is analyzed in 5 pages with sensory information interpretation and truth the primary focus of di...

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

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

of those objects were independent of his own thought processes: "I perceived certain objects wholly different from my thought, na...

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...

"by posing the question in terms of relation between thinking subject, deity, and external world, Descartes made a purely epistemo...

the dreaming argument is simply one concept that emanates from Descartes Meditations, but it has numerous theoretical implications...

what can be seen or proven. While Melissa could surely use the argument in her defense as if the body is separate from the soul...

a desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

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

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)....

is dreaming or not and finally, the last statement in the proof is a conclusion that says that he does not know whether or not he ...

Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...

also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...

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

there is noting upon which the beliefs of an individual may be based and built or expanded upon. Descartes Meditations It is in "...

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

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

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

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...

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...