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- quot;) is a philosophical phrase by René Descartes, and it is a translation ... Descartes understood "certainty" as the primary characteristic ...12 KB (1,920 words) - 22:26, 7 January 2024
- Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...11 KB (1,731 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps ... The debate around which the rationalism/empiricism distinction revolves ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 01:30, 8 December 2022
- :For the primes named after Marin Mersenne, see Mersenne prime. mainly remembered in his connection with Descartes, for whom he compiled a ...8 KB (1,231 words) - 15:57, 6 November 2022
- acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical minds ... adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic philosophy ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:41, 31 July 2023
- Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus ... Geulincx served as professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- and historian. He is seen as one of the most important proponents ... 1884. Along with Maritain, he studied with the then tremendously popular ...8 KB (1,224 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2024
- philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized ... at Rome and Padua. His studies included the Renaissance curriculum of ...7 KB (1,115 words) - 17:13, 29 September 2023
- means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" ... A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt scientist, and writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between ... ==Motivation for the distinction== There are both common-sense and ...17 KB (2,610 words) - 15:53, 11 August 2023
- in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth ... The following article focuses on three central topics (skepticism ...25 KB (3,892 words) - 19:25, 9 November 2022
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such as curves ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 00:41, 29 November 2023
- Feldspar is the name of a group of rock-forming minerals that make ... Feldspar is derived from the German Feld (field) and Spat (a rock ...5 KB (690 words) - 01:58, 26 March 2024
- 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... though Leibniz expressed sympathy for the vision in God and aspects ...18 KB (2,772 words) - 23:36, 14 November 2022
- In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...13 KB (1,784 words) - 06:25, 11 January 2024
- Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access ... In visual perception, the appearance of an object changes according ...17 KB (2,483 words) - 01:01, 24 November 2022
- of knowledge. While skepticism denies the possibility of attaining certainty ... Rene Descartes used doubt as a philosophical method in his thought ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- remembered as a Cambridge Platonist and as the sole English proponent of ... Norris felt that Malebranche had not succeeded in proving the existence ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... or without realizing them, which include the continual and consistent existence ...14 KB (2,132 words) - 08:53, 27 September 2023
- knowledge in sharp contrast to those of Descartes. While Descartes attempted ... Born to a bookseller and the daughter of a carriage maker, Vico attended ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 20:24, 14 December 2023
- indirect realism, epistemological dualism, the veil of perception, and representationalism ... The question then arises about the validity of human knowledge, and ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 19:41, 16 April 2023
- The term natural philosophy, or the philosophy of nature (Latin, philosophia ... Schelling and G.W.F. Hegel, and championed the concept of an organic and ...13 KB (1,838 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- Husserlian phenomenology, used to identify the essential components of the ... hermeneutic phenomenology. While Husserl, the originator of phenomenology ...9 KB (1,238 words) - 00:03, 13 February 2024
- elements which results in a new creation. The term is found is a wide variety ... Synthesis as a mental process, on the other hand, is often an unconscious ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 01:58, 27 February 2023
- and is often criticized for overlooking the organic interdependent relationships ... == Mechanism as the principles of nature== The older doctrine which ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- atomism with Christianity and for publishing the first official observations ... Like many intellectuals during the first half of the sixteenth century ...19 KB (2,823 words) - 05:22, 24 November 2022
- Solipsism (Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) is the position that ... The conclusion that everything in the outside world is nothing but ...26 KB (3,989 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- [[Image:DSCF0003.jpg|thumb|right|325px|Introspection entails the inward ... thoughts and perceptions. Introspection is the process of directly examining ...17 KB (2,469 words) - 11:00, 6 March 2024
- often translated "blank slate") is the notion, popularized by John ... ==History of the notion== In the fourth century B.C.E., Aristotle originated ...9 KB (1,406 words) - 02:05, 27 February 2023
- a French philosopher, strongly influenced by the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl ... he received his aggregation in philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 00:45, 9 November 2022
- The term common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective ... perspective which took common sense as the source and ground of justification ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- attribute omnipotence only to God. In the philosophies of Western monotheistic ... There are a variety of views of omnipotence, and the five most representative ...25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
- contribution was his philosophy of mind, in the broad sense of the term. His ... A number of his ideas such as the concept of intentionality, which ...12 KB (1,636 words) - 05:17, 9 April 2024
- was a British philosopher and leader of the Neo-Hegelian school in Britain ... Caird published two sets of Gifford lectures, The Evolution of Religion ...11 KB (1,641 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- philosophical investigations centered upon the human person. In doing this ... he went on to study philosophy, first at the University of Rennes, and ...18 KB (2,604 words) - 01:31, 23 November 2022
- ="those on nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle& ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...19 KB (2,966 words) - 16:22, 9 November 2022
- The Cambridge Platonists are a group of seventeenth century British ... The Cambridge Platonists were extremely learned scholars but often ...25 KB (3,863 words) - 18:53, 25 November 2023
- Existentialism is a philosophical movement that arose in the twentieth ... thinkers, such as Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century, and particularly ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 23:54, 24 March 2024
- Human beings understand the world by applying concepts and expressing ... A vast array of accounts attempt to explain the nature of concepts ...20 KB (3,052 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting ... ground for communication helps bring the world together, others point ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 02:18, 15 January 2023
- of Asian philosophy he was dissatisfied with the individualism of Martin Heidegger ... in Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the second son of a physician ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- studies questions of being or existence. The questions include a wide range ... The conceptual division of this branch of philosophy was established ...15 KB (2,218 words) - 00:43, 18 November 2022
- The Transcendental Ego (or its equivalent under various other formulations ... The notion of an Ego or self that precedes all experiences and makes ...8 KB (1,206 words) - 00:40, 2 May 2023
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- bioethics that considers animals other than the human species as bearers of ... The philosophy of animal rights has given rise to a socio-political ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” ... framework within which we can find the natures, conditions, and justifications ...17 KB (2,371 words) - 19:48, 23 November 2022
- was a British philosopher, widely cited as the most important British moral ... Williams became known internationally for his attempt to return the ...30 KB (4,357 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2024
- to essentially spiritual questions such as the attributes of God and the ... he seeks to provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- In natural philosophy, atomism is the theory that all the objects ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...37 KB (5,618 words) - 06:58, 21 August 2023
- Self-concept or self identity is the mental and conceptual understanding ... Components of the self-concept include physical, psychological, and ...38 KB (5,604 words) - 20:14, 22 May 2023
- The Cyrenaics were one of the two earliest Socratic schools of philosophy ... and tranquility; Anniceris stressed the altruistic pleasures of friendship ...9 KB (1,293 words) - 06:55, 12 January 2024
- of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School, which began ... Zeno presented paradoxes in order to support the claims of Parmenides: ...8 KB (1,289 words) - 05:50, 13 June 2023
- of concresence," by which he meant the coming together of all that ... to develop Whitehead's metaphysics at the University of Chicago where ...23 KB (3,480 words) - 23:03, 30 November 2022
- regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654. She was the only surviving legitimate ... and his wife Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg. As the heiress presumptive ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- philosophy and some social sciences, meaning the world "as lived" ... consciousness or mental life; that is, the correlation between the functions ...11 KB (1,588 words) - 22:49, 25 October 2022
- The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon Earthquake ... The event was widely discussed by European Enlightenment philosophers ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 04:24, 29 October 2022
- phenomenological method for articulating the relation between the notion ... Oxford. From 1917 to 1919 he served in the Royal Air Force, and it may ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:46, 29 July 2023
- whose famous 1651 book Leviathan set the agenda for much of subsequent ... Hobbes was one of the first political philosophers who tried to explain ...29 KB (4,445 words) - 21:18, 30 April 2023
- He converted to Catholicism and is the author of more than 60 books ... Maritain's early upbringing and education at the Sorbonne led ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- influenced by Kierkegaard, Sartre, and the phenomenology of Husserl and ... Beauvoir is best known for her 1949 treatise Le Deuxième Sexe (The ...19 KB (2,875 words) - 22:12, 29 January 2023
- of philosophical positions that emphasize the role of experience. The category ... philosophical positions that emphasize the role of innate ideas, or a ...34 KB (4,921 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- A submarine communications cable is a cable laid beneath the sea to ... introduced their working telegraph in 1839, the idea of a submarine line across ...19 KB (2,734 words) - 21:23, 26 February 2023
- voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in ... Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot ...9 KB (1,342 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- independent word of "existence." The word "existence," ... Modern existentialism maintained the distinction between essence and ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- and humanist who greatly influenced the cultural and literary renaissance ... resigning his post as professor at the University of Madrid in protest ...25 KB (3,932 words) - 01:34, 8 September 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Analytic philosophy has been the dominant academic philosophical movement ... The main founders of analytic philosophy were the Cambridge philosophers ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 18:56, 26 July 2023
- called a numeral. In common usage, however, the word number is used for both ... a number are called numerical operations. The study of numerical operations ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- principle. He considered mathematics the ideal form of knowledge, and ... D'Alembert was an important figure of the French Enlightenment ...12 KB (1,720 words) - 17:39, 2 April 2024
- reminiscence), or as it is also known, the theory of recollection, is ... The theory of anamnesis is a version of theory of innate ideas. Rationalists ...15 KB (2,367 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- educator, and prolific writer, and one of the leading exponents of neo-Kantian ... Cassirer played a mediating role between the two major traditions ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 19:34, 13 February 2024
- was a French philosopher who rose to some of the most prestigious positions ... Bachelard proposed that the history of science is replete with "epistemological ...12 KB (1,710 words) - 07:54, 23 January 2023
- Sight, the sense of vision or visual perception, describes the capability ... that different receptors are responsible for the perception of color (the frequency ...14 KB (2,075 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- whose systematic eclecticism made him the best-known French thinker ... of Public Instruction in France, he studied the educational system of Prussia ...26 KB (4,045 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2023
- theology. Imprisoned for many years by the Inquisition for his libertinism ... He promoted pansensism, the idea that all things in nature are endowed ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 03:56, 1 May 2023
- Sorbonne.jpg|thumb|300 px|Main buildings of the University of Paris I Panthéon ... The historic University of Paris (Université de Paris) first appeared ...30 KB (4,606 words) - 02:11, 18 April 2023
- 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