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Essays 421 - 450
(Washington State University, 2004). Plato asserts that our perceptions are essentially "shadows" of real objects. In ot...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
However, we can also argue that the proof f this truth made no difference to whether the belief was true, being true even before i...
at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...
at least, Hume is positing that reason does not have a very important role to play in life, thus, reason, to Hume, would be defini...
long before the development of measurement and observation tools that could provide "proof" of his position. Scientifically...
they touched, saw, tasted and felt, was actually constructed from a very sophisticated computer program. The people of this future...
this is a ludicrous statement because if the sun did not rise, there would be no life as human beings need the sun in order for th...
deeper and ask just what the nature of these impressions are, and how they operate (PG). The impression may after all arise from...
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
see the usefulness of your food donation, insofar as eating food will improve his health." And there is still yet another agreeabl...
In five pages a case study involving whether or not to have a baby or have an abortion is examined in an application of the theori...
and that is that it enables both freedom and necessity to coexist; it favors an ethical reliance on moral deterrence without brini...
acknowledging it as the source from which the mind receives sensory information. However, Kant argued that the mind cannot know th...
assented to three kinds of knowledge: intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive and all are based upon the concept of "ideas" (Kenyo...
More specifically, Hume argued that cause is the idea that one event makes another event inevitable and/or necessary (The Philosop...
This paper examines how philosophers David Hume, Plato, and Rene Descartes define knowledge in three pages with the cave allegory ...
suicide ideation is often aligned with a lack of clear thinking. Thus, suicide should not be prohibited or encouraged, but rather ...
"experienced" internally in some manner, as well as externally via touch or logical use of the item in daily living. In thi...
One will of course possess an impression from the sight, and supposes that there is a causal relationship between the flames and t...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
Loftus report that visitors to Disneyland had come to the conclusion that they met Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is actually a Warner...
Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....
the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
made consistent"; meaning that its hard to believe we can draw the wrong conclusions if we have true premises to begin with (Berke...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
a store, and decides that he will not do it again but keeps the merchandise anyway to avoid prosecution, he is being reasonable. H...
a "relentless critic of metaphysics and religion" (David Hume, 2002). Hume argued that "our purely philosophical conceptions of G...
story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...