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René Descartes. René Descartes' (1596–1650) "mechanical" philosophy of corpuscularism had much in common with atomism, and is considered, in some senses, to be a different version of it. Descartes thought everything physical in the universe to be made of tiny vortices of matter. Like the ancient atomists, Descartes claimed that sensations ...
The Anglo-Moroccan School is licensed by the University of Cambridge as an International Examinations Centre (MA008) and a registered Cambridge International Primary Programme school. In the Spring of 2009, the Anglo-Moroccan School was honoured to receive a visit from a member of the Moroccan Royal Family , Cherifa Lalla Oum Keltoum.
In the Netherlands, where Descartes had lived for a long time, Cartesianism was a doctrine popular mainly among university professors and lecturers.In Germany the influence of this doctrine was not relevant and followers of Cartesianism in the German-speaking border regions between these countries (e.g., the iatromathematician Yvo Gaukes from East Frisia) frequently chose to publish their ...
Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences. [4] For him, philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge, as he related in a letter to a French translator: [5]
The wax argument or the sheet of wax example is a thought experiment that René Descartes created in the second of his Meditations on First Philosophy.He devised it to analyze what properties are essential for bodies, show how uncertain our knowledge of the world is compared to our knowledge of our minds, and argue for rationalism.
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Rules 13–24 deal with what Descartes terms "perfectly understood problems", or problems in which all of the conditions relevant to the solution of the problem are known, and which arise principally in arithmetic and geometry. Rules 25–36 deal with "imperfectly understood problems", or problems in which one or more conditions relevant to the ...