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and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

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 thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

it is thought to be an intuition in respect to "ones own reality" (2003). It is in essence "an expression of the indubitability of...

in order to establish a firm foundation of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwe...

In eight pages this paper examines these philosophers' views regarding knowledge in a consideration of experience and reason with ...

and balances helps to equalize what man truly knows and that which he thinks he knows - the very foundation for identifying weakne...

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...

certain choices in life. They make communion and choose a new middle name. They go to school, and their degree is attached to that...

is an idea that makes sense. Descartes went the other way, contending that it is the thought process that defines the human being ...

or the perception of identity changes through time. For example, someone grows up and has certain experiences and perceptions and ...

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

accept the cogito at face value. It is only after answering an objection, that he comes up with a conclusion, which is that while ...

it is also the case that in general terms, people seem to believe what they see. They do not see atoms and they do see a solid mas...

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...

perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception r...

and truth, Benjamin (2002) surmises how those who have invested both time and pains in its postulations should partake of a greate...

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

his own observation and experience" (Hume). In other words, an old dog, due to his experience, knows the rabbit will double back. ...

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

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...

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

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...