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René Descartes (/ d eɪ ˈ k ɑːr t / day-KART or UK: / ˈ d eɪ k ɑːr t / DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ⓘ; [note 3] [11] 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) [12] [13]: 58 was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.
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.
Cartesianism is the system of René Descartes and his followers, who emphasized reason and innate ideas over sensory experience. It includes the mind-body dualism that Descartes argued for in his Meditations on First Philosophy.
Cogito, ergo sum is the Latin phrase for "I think, therefore I am", the first principle of René Descartes's philosophy. He published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method.
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.
Learn about Descartes' metaphor of the tree of knowledge to describe the relations among different parts of philosophy. The tree's roots are metaphysics, its trunk is physics, and its branches are medicine, mechanics and morals.
The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but first published (Amsterdam, 1684) in Dutch translation in a ...
René Descartes. The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld's circle [1]) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes. He argued that the existence of God is proven by reliable perception, which is itself guaranteed by God.