... are the most important factor in the learning process and therefore contribute greatly toward knowledge, as the basis of his theory of perception. Unlike Descartes, Locke claimed that innate ideas were practically non-existent. He argued that we (humans) are not constituted so that we can know ... and eternity though, because he later reasons in the Essay that nothing cannot produce a being. Therefore, something must have existed from eternity. Like Descartes, Locke trusts that God assures the reliability of his sensory beliefs. Locke's belief in the existence of God is argumentative. He...

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... called by her the "mind - body dichotomy" because man, in her opinion, is a being of integrated body and soul. That is why she rejects the mind - body dualism of Rene Descartes, who claimed that "matter and spirit are two separate kinds of substances which can exist apart from one another"(Full Context: Metaphysics: par 4). On the other hand, Rand seems to ... uphold the view of Rene Descartes as far as the self-evident existence of volitional consciousness is concerned, which is treated as the second axiom of her philosophy. Consequently, such philosophies as "behaviourism" and "elimin...

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... to correspond with the idea that there is no right way to define truth. There do seem to be at least some things that are always true though. René Descartes argues that math is always true. This seems to hold some ground since two-plus-two always equals four and so on. The second question of this thesis refers to ... ...

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... heritage of William Ockham and Cusanus and confirms Cusanus' foundation of sciences, which is elaborated into an analytical-synthetic epistemological model to approach reality. Comparing the theories of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Newton, Locke and Vico, each in their own way reflects the above mentioned, adage. At the same time Augustine's introspective search for truth is further radicalised inasmuch ... ...

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