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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...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

until midmorning began as a result of his ill health (Gaukroger, 1997). The education he received here, which lasted until 1612 se...

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 ...

thing" sets the stage for each of his subsequent steps. In Step 2 he delineates his completeness into one of its two parts, the b...

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

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

function can be said to be literal. In other words, what is inferred in immediately testable and will hold true for every person. ...

was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

(Anonymous The Philosophy of Ren? Descartes, 2002; phildescartes1.htm). In 1629 settled himself in Holland, a place which appar...

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...

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

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...

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

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...

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

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

it, these are all abstractions on the concept of the apple in the first place. These notions could not be made without the immedi...

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

he (and humans in general) is(are) a complete entity, a "cogito" or "thinking thing" (as he clarifies in step 1), that entity is c...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...