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

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...

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...

essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

going to equal seven. He states in his Mediations on First Philosophy: "SEVERAL years have now elapsed since I first became awar...

for answers related to existence or transcendence. Interestingly, many will read his arguments, which are admittedly logical and w...

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

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 ...

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

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...

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...