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Essays 331 - 360
The problem which arose was that if the mind generates all perception, then is our understanding of something "real", meaning of t...
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...
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...
In six pages the philosophical and mathematical theories of Rene Descartes are discussed. Four sources are cited in the bibliogra...
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...
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...
and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...
led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...
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...
Science. But the absence of humanness to the drawing does not make the picture less perfect. It may nonetheless be a perfect depic...
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...
can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...
a thinking thing, or a thing possessing within itself the faculty of thinking" (Descartes, 1960, p. 7). The fundamental asp...
based solely upon interpretive existence: 1) For an ordinary physical object (such as a tree) to really exist is for it to exist e...
2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...
also supported what was known as the Theory of Ideas, which mainly stated that archetypal ideas (which rest in the universal)(Plan...
is real? Again, the Cartesian Cogito is something that resolves the problem for some. Still, this is a problem that many philosoph...
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...
In six pages this argumentative paper examines object perception as represented by Rene Descartes wiht a discussion of physical se...
In five pages this paper considers what philosophers David Hume, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, and Plato have to say about the du...
In five pages Descartes' philosophies regarding education are discussed and whether or not there is any evidence of them in the co...
his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...
is, therefore, to be perceived - that matter does not exist independently of perception. Inasmuch as philosophy is nothing other ...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free ch...
trial for treason and his thoughts prior to his execution. These are the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo, which is an account of...