article "Descartes, René". The Correspondence of René Descartes in EMLO Works by René Descartes at Project Gutenberg Works by or about René Descartes at the...
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Paris Descartes University (French: Université Paris 5 René Descartes), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was...
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Cogito, ergo sum (section In Descartes's writings)
English as "I think, therefore I am", is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc...
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Solipsism (section René Descartes)
but rather used as a thought experiment to assist skepticism (e.g. René Descartes' Cartesian skepticism).[citation needed] Mere denial of material existence...
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Francine Descartes (19 July 1635, Deventer – 7 September 1640, Amersfoort) was René Descartes's daughter. Francine was the daughter of Helena Jans van...
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Christian psychology (section René Descartes)
religion at the time. One early contributor was a French philosopher, René Descartes. He reinforced an Aristotelian concept explaining the human mind that...
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Ghost in the machine (redirect from Descartes' myth)
description of René Descartes' mind–body dualism. Ryle introduced the phrase in The Concept of Mind (1949) to highlight the view of Descartes and others that...
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town is locally nicknamed as the "town of the three Renés" (René Descartes, René de Buxeuil, and René Boylesve). The town is notable in Acadian genealogy...
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Rationalism (section René Descartes (1596–1650))
to our conscious mind). In his book Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes postulates three classifications for our ideas when he says, "Among...
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In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, described by René Descartes in his La Géométrie, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes...
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