Search results for "The World (Descartes)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 1753. Whoever makes a Design without the knowledge of Perspective will ... Perception is the process by which stimulation of the senses is translated ...52 KB (7,802 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- in 1694. His commentaries and revisions of the theories of Thomas Hobbes ... 1632, at Dorfchemnitz Stollberg District, in the ore mountains (Erzgebirge ...14 KB (2,091 words) - 03:05, 23 December 2022
- ecological egalitarianism which argues for the equal rights of all living ... Saint Francis of Assisi, whose views include the "deep" interconnectedness ...30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
- political economist and satirist. Born in the Netherlands, he lived most ... He was known for The Fable of the Bees (1714), which was first published ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- The term monism (from the Greek: μόνος monos or "one" ... The quest for oneness has been an important, universal drive and impulse ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated ... He was Member of the Parliament of England briefly and was also a ...28 KB (4,406 words) - 10:38, 12 May 2023
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... Science, while providing theories about the How and What of life, has ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- (c.1323 - July 11, 1382) was one of the most original thinkers of ... intensity over time or distance, and offered the first proof of Merton’s ...30 KB (4,510 words) - 09:44, 11 March 2023
- Emotions are often intertwined with the mood, temperament, personality ... At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
- that takes its defining inspiration from the work of Aristotle. Since Aristotle ... During the seventeenth century, modern philosophy began to develop ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- adaptation in machines. John McCarthy coined the term to mean "the science ... systems; automated planning and scheduling; the ability to answer diagnostic ...15 KB (2,061 words) - 17:40, 16 August 2023
- The English word "axiology" (Greek: axios = worth; logos ... The axiological movement emerges from the phenomenological method ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- Epicureanism is a system of philosophy based upon the teachings of ... spiritual-physical experiences. Although the modern terms “epicure” ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 19:06, 13 February 2024
- The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... The Enlightenment advocated reason as a means to establishing an authoritative ...33 KB (4,666 words) - 04:36, 30 April 2021
- philosopher and a founding representative of the Oxford-based British ordinary ... man "had migrated into agnosticism from the Evangelicalism in which his ...18 KB (2,734 words) - 11:59, 22 May 2024
- Arguments or proofs for the Existence of God have been proposed by ... If God is conceived as the Supreme Being, Being-itself, the source ...81 KB (12,834 words) - 04:01, 24 May 2024
- a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on diverse ... on both Western and Islamic philosophy. The beginning of "modern ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 06:30, 12 August 2023
- Peirce (1839 – 1914) (who first stated the pragmatic maxim) and came ... Upon the rise of analytic philosophy after World War II, the classical ...38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
- The Liezi (列子 in Chinese characters, Lièzĭ in pinyin) is a Daoist ... The text is divided into eight thematically-organized chapters, each ...18 KB (2,907 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
