Search results for "The World (Descartes)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 25, 1683 - September 12, 1764) was one of the most important French composer ... His theories regarding the relationship between functional harmony ...9 KB (1,322 words) - 17:12, 2 April 2024
- was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic French government ... Bayle attached footnotes to a number of the articles in which he presented ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 05:18, 24 November 2022
- context, is a theory that asserts that the nature of complex things is ... In the early twentieth century, for example, key logical positivists ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 02:59, 8 December 2022
- Sextus Empiricus (lived during the second or possibly the third century ... In his medical work, tradition maintains that Sextus belonged to the ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- philosopher and Bishop of Cloyne, was one of the three great British Empiricists ... George Berkeley’s name in the history of philosophy is linked to ...23 KB (3,672 words) - 07:03, 18 April 2024
- composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost ... Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- humans trying to understand what is the self that is conscious and ... in recent decades suggest strongly that the great apes have a level of ...35 KB (5,274 words) - 18:47, 9 November 2022
- Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...41 KB (6,380 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... other Jansenists, who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 05:25, 24 November 2022
- father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences ... He was a mathematician of the first order. In mathematics, Pascal ...29 KB (4,620 words) - 18:12, 31 October 2023
- In philosophy, materialism is a monistic (everything is composed of ... only by natural causes without assuming the existence or non-existence ...23 KB (3,418 words) - 16:49, 7 November 2022
- exert a force on one another, and worked out the mathematical expressions that ... Ampère was born near Lyon, France, the son of Jeanne-Antoinette Desutieres ...10 KB (1,522 words) - 17:59, 27 July 2023
- In common usage, the term light (or visible light) refers to electromagnetic ... The study of light and its interaction with matter is termed optics ...39 KB (6,028 words) - 01:15, 26 October 2022
- quot;). He has therefore been called the “father of modern astronomy ... Galileo came into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church of his day ...28 KB (4,354 words) - 03:55, 18 April 2024
- The terms form and matter describe a basic duality in all existence ... In general, though, the terms form and matter derive from classical ...13 KB (2,076 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- to any doctrine or way of thought denying the ability of our mind to reach ... Originating in the human tendency to question the reliability of any ...31 KB (4,697 words) - 22:44, 29 January 2023
- Phenomenology is, in its founder Edmund Husserl's formulation ... This emphasis on the intentional structure of experience makes phenomenology ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 02:57, 24 November 2022
- his thought differs in significant ways from the existentialism of Jean-Paul ... only fourteen years old he read works by the great German philosophers ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 04:06, 15 November 2022
- puzzling and controversial, being both the most familiar and the most ... Beyond the problem of how to define consciousness, there are also ...56 KB (7,936 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Desire has been the subject of religious and philosophical speculation ... The most basic of these meanings (the literal meaning) is "thirst ...23 KB (3,709 words) - 09:57, 29 January 2024
