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While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

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...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

men for the society in which they develop. Youngs concepts of justice and mans role in society appear to challenge those prese...

In five pages both philosophical arguments regarding moral judgment are compared along with a consideration of why each would disa...

guessing his parents. An eight year old may argue that it is proper for him to go to a particular event by himself, but his parent...

other words, lets say that someone came along and said that the sky was falling and that it was a miracle! Basically what Hume is...

considerable empirical consideration but one which has yet to be either proved or refuted. Such as statement, therefore is not a ...

In six pages this paper discusses how Hume critiques man's knowledge regarding causal relationships which is based on the philosop...

Hume presented his arguments in a pair of treatises that are still considered required reading for any student of Western philosop...

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

what is not. Descartes method of systematic doubt is to "reject as if absolutely false anything as to which I could imagine t...

may volunteer to go door to door to collect money for charity. Each makes use of leisure time. Yet, one might attach the actions o...

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...

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...

2002) . Rene Descartes on the other hand delved into the idea of immediate conscious thinking (2002). Locke viewed identity as be...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Tis essay presents a summary and discussion of the perspectives presented by Rene Descartes in his "Discourse on the Method," part...

In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...

In six pages Rene Descartes' Meditations are used to distinguish between dreaming and the waking reality state. There are no othe...

the belief that God created all plants and animals, as well as the universe itself, as recounted in the Old Testament. Evolutioni...

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...