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  • quot;) is a philosophical phrase by René Descartes, and it is a translation ... Descartes understood "certainty" as the primary characteristic ...
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  • Cartesianism is the school of philosophy based on the fundamental ... Though, contrary to Descartes' hopes, his philosophy was poorly ...
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  • Rationalism is a broad family of positions in epistemology. Perhaps ... The debate around which the rationalism/empiricism distinction revolves ...
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  • :For the primes named after Marin Mersenne, see Mersenne prime. mainly remembered in his connection with Descartes, for whom he compiled a ...
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  • acquired a reputation in his day as one of the greatest philosophical minds ... adamant defender of Cartesian philosophy in the days when Scholastic philosophy ...
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  • Arnold Geulincx (1624 - 1669), sometimes known by the pseudonym Philaretus ... Geulincx served as professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium ...
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  • The term "dualism" can be used for any theory according ... In the past century, substance dualism has enjoyed relatively little ...
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  • philosopher and natural scientist. Opposing the Aristotelianism which characterized ... at Rome and Padua. His studies included the Renaissance curriculum of ...
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  • means a fundamental law or assumption. The word "principle" ... A principle is fundamental in the sense that it generally cannot be ...
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  • René Descartes (French ʁə'ne de'kaʁt scientist, and writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy ...
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  • It would not be an exaggeration to say that the distinction between ... ==Motivation for the distinction== There are both common-sense and ...
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  • in Western European philosophy spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth ... The following article focuses on three central topics (skepticism ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In mathematics, the Cartesian coordinate system (or rectangular coordinate ... Using the Cartesian coordinate system, geometric shapes (such as curves ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 13, 1715) was a French philosopher of the Cartesian school. His philosophy ... though Leibniz expressed sympathy for the vision in God and aspects ...
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  • In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...
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  • Perspectivism is the philosophical position that one's access ... In visual perception, the appearance of an object changes according ...
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  • of knowledge. While skepticism denies the possibility of attaining certainty ... Rene Descartes used doubt as a philosophical method in his thought ...
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  • Belief is the state of mind in which an individual is convinced of ... or without realizing them, which include the continual and consistent existence ...
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