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He found that he could not believe in something unless its certainty was unquestionable. He only believed in the concrete, the po...

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

explain why this is so. Descartes also questioned the ability of a dreamer to know whether or not he is dreaming. Many people do a...

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 ...

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)....

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

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

In five pages Meditation I and Meditation II of Rene Descartes are analyzed. There is no bibliography included....

significance despite scholarly interpretations to the contrary, because Descartes, himself, rejects this line of reasoning (109). ...

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

In six pages this report assess which philosophical argument Bertrand Russell would support in an examination of Russell's Problem...

In five pages the Third Meditation of Rene Descartes is analyzed in terms of the arguments presented. There are no other sources ...

In four pages this text examines Meditations on First Philosophy in an analyzes of the three doubt arguments Rene Descartes presen...

you either mistake it for something else, or you can easily understand how someone might come to do this" (89). In this way, Bouws...

In five pages the First Meditation of Rene Descartes is examined in terms of dream doubt and how perception examples fall short of...

being and his conviction that he is in a certain location, dressed in a certain way, but then goes on to compare his situation wit...

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

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...

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

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

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...

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

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

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

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 desire to find out something that is known for sure. It is of course hard to know anything is certain. Some people today questio...

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

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