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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
