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Essays 91 - 120
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
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. ...
is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...
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...
Smarts philosophies regarding the correlation between brain and mind are supported by a number of historic philosophers and scient...
"wears" but has nothing to do with the actual internal identity of the individual. The British philosopher Gilbert Rye referred to...
and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...
until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...
at those responsible for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. In other words, education is supposed to take a neutral appr...
Therefore, realities for these individuals would logically be at a variance. Francis Bacon, considered the father of modern scie...
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)....
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...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...
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 ...
It is in the Second Meditation, however, that the apparent flaw in his logic appears and gives rise to the Cartesian Circle. In th...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
The fundamental propositions of the science established in the Meditations go to physics, but while Descartes did apply science, h...
one is not perceiving reality correctly. Yet, while all of these situations leads to a change in perception, who is to say that th...
unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...
that the condition for being in a mental state should be given by the function of that state and also, this is meant to be in term...
unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...