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doubt and thought. If he thinks, then he exists: at least, his mind exists, since what he knows of his body is dependent, again, o...

questions that are not answered by the phrase "I think. Therefore I am." What if one does not think? Does that prove that he or sh...

is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...

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

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...

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...

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

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

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...

capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...

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

unchanging primary principles constitute the basis of all knowledge, and that knowledge of a thing is required in order to conduct...

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

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...

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...

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

They are, instead, robot-like in that they do what they are told and do not question the validity of the teachings. Instead, peopl...

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...

This is found in Descartes work Meditations and is referred to as substance dualism, which is also known as Cartesian interactioni...

at the conclusion that there is no belief of which we can be certain, since the process of acquiring such information is inherentl...

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

occurred. One of the only things that one can find to argue about Locke is that he eventually becomes as inflexible as the rest o...

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

In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...

In five pages Descartes' Second Meditation is explored in terms of his analysis of what the perception of melting beeswax would be...