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Descartes is a Canadian technology company that provides logistics software, supply chain management software, and cloud services. It operates the Global Logistics Network, an electronic messaging system for logistics and customs information, and has acquired several niche companies in the sector.
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.
Descartes justifies his omissions and obscurities with the remark that much was deliberately omitted "in order to give others the pleasure of discovering [it] for themselves." Descartes is often credited with inventing the coordinate plane because he had the relevant concepts in his book, [ 8 ] however, nowhere in La Géométrie does the modern ...
A book by René Descartes that synthesizes his metaphysics and natural philosophy, and sets forth the laws of motion. It was written in Latin in 1644 and translated into French in 1647, with a preface on the concept of philosophy and its degrees of knowledge.
Principia philosophiae cartesianae (PPC; "The Principles of Cartesian Philosophy") or Renati Descartes principia philosophiae, more geometrico demonstrata ("The Principles of René Descartes' Philosophy, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order") is a philosophical work of Baruch Spinoza published in Amsterdam in 1663.
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 ...
The Cartesian Self is a philosophical concept developed by René Descartes, who argued that the mind is a thinking substance that can doubt its own existence and the existence of the body and the world. The article explains Descartes' arguments, interpretations, and criticisms of the Cartesian Self, as well as its relation to the Cartesian Other and the Cartesian Pure Inquirer.
Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology (French: Méditations cartésiennes: Introduction à la phénoménologie) is a book by the philosopher Edmund Husserl, based on four lectures he gave at the Sorbonne, in the Amphithéatre Descartes on February 23 and 25, 1929.