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Lycée Descartes (formerly known as Lycée Gouraud) is a French international school in Rabat, Morocco. [1] The establishment is directly managed by the AEFE , [2] an agency under the administration of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs , that assures the quality of schools teaching the French national curriculum outside France.
Descartes's theorem. Descartes's theorem on the "total defect" of a polyhedron states that if the polyhedron is homeomorphic to a sphere (i.e. topologically equivalent to a sphere, so that it may be deformed into a sphere by stretching without tearing), the "total defect", i.e. the sum of the defects of all of the vertices, is two full circles (or 720° or 4 π radians).
L'Entretien entre M. Descartes avec M. Pascal le jeune is a theatre play by Jean-Claude Brisville.. Created in October 1985 at Théâtre de l'Europe in a mise-en-scène by Jean-Pierre Miquel, with Henri Virlogeux (René Descartes) and Daniel Mesguich (Blaise Pascal), the play was revived in 2007 at Théâtre de l'Œuvre in a mise-en-scène by Daniel Mesguich, with Daniel Mesguich (Descartes ...
Demon (thought experiment) In thought experiments, philosophers and scientists occasionally imagine entities with special abilities as a way to pose thought experiment or highlight apparent paradoxes. The word "demon" here does not necessarily connotate a demon, a malevolent being. For instance, when William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) came up with ...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences ( French: Discours de la Méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637. It is best known as the source of the famous quotation ...
Extension (metaphysics) In metaphysics, extension signifies both 'stretching out' (Latin: extensio) as well as later 'taking up space', and most recently, spreading one's internal mental cognition into the external world. The history of thinking about extension can be traced back at least to Archytas ' spear analogy for the infinity of space.
"Cogito and the History of Madness" is a 1963 paper by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida that critically responds to Michel Foucault's book History of Madness. In this paper, Derrida questions the intentions and feasibility of Foucault's book, particularly in relation to the historical importance attributed by Foucault to the treatment of madness by Descartes in the Meditations on First ...
Animal machine. Animal machine or bête-machine (Fr., animal-machine), is a philosophical notion from Descartes in the 17th century who held that animal behaviour can be compared to the one of machines. Like them, animals would be an assembly of mechanical pieces and therefore unable to think and not gifted of consciousness, although they ...