Descartes. Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe New York: Routledge 2005. Richard A. Watson, The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–1712...
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body Cartesianism, the philosophy of René Descartes Cartesianists, followers of Cartesianism Cartesian Meditations, a work by Edmund Husserl Cartesian linguistics...
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In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system (UK: /kɑːrˈtiːzjən/, US: /kɑːrˈtiːʒən/) in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely...
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M., & Antoine-Mahut, D., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), p. 83. Scruton, ibid., p. 56...
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In mathematics, specifically set theory, the Cartesian product of two sets A and B, denoted A × B, is the set of all ordered pairs (a, b) where a is an...
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In computer science, a Cartesian tree is a binary tree derived from a sequence of distinct numbers. To construct the Cartesian tree, set its root to be...
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The Cartesian theater is a term coined by philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett to critique a persistent flaw in theories of mind, introduced...
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Dancing Cartesian Devil A Cartesian diver or Cartesian devil is a classic science experiment which demonstrates the principle of buoyancy (Archimedes'...
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A Cartesian explosion is an effect that occurs when applying the Cartesian product to multiple sets, which results in geometric growth in the number of...
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In mathematics, especially homotopy theory, a cartesian fibration is, roughly, a map so that every lift exists that is a final object among all lifts...
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The term Cartesian linguistics was coined by Noam Chomsky in his book Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought (1966). The...
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In category theory, a category is Cartesian closed if, roughly speaking, any morphism defined on a product of two objects can be naturally identified...
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In geometry, a Cartesian oval is a plane curve consisting of points that have the same linear combination of distances from two fixed points (foci). These...
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The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld's circle) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes....
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René Descartes (redirect from Cartesian idea)
with the birth of two rationalistic philosophical systems of Descartes (Cartesianism) and Spinoza (Spinozism). It was the 17th-century arch-rationalists like...
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In geometry and linear algebra, a Cartesian tensor uses an orthonormal basis to represent a tensor in a Euclidean space in the form of components. Converting...
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longitude form a coordinate tuple like a cartesian coordinate system, the geographic coordinate system is not cartesian because the measurements are angles...
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transcendental phenomenology a neo-Cartesianism, even though It Is obliged — and precisely by its radical development of Cartesian motifs — to reject nearly all...
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In philosophy of mind, cartesian materialism, a term coined by Daniel Dennett, views consciousness as tied to one or more specific brain areas that capture...
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Coordinate system (redirect from Cartesian/Polar)
unique point. The prototypical example of a coordinate system is the Cartesian coordinate system. In the plane, two perpendicular lines are chosen and...
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Pullback (category theory) (redirect from Cartesian diagram)
pullback (also called a fiber product, fibre product, fibered product or Cartesian square) is the limit of a diagram consisting of two morphisms f : X → Z...
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The Cartesian sky-scraper, designed by Le Corbusier in 1938, is a type of tower known for its modern and rational design. This type of modern administration...
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In philosophy, the Cartesian Self, or Cartesian subject, a concept developed by the philosopher René Descartes within his system of mind–body dualism,...
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A Cartesian coordinate robot (also called linear robot) is an industrial robot whose three principal axes of control are linear (i.e. they move in a straight...
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Analytic geometry (redirect from Cartesian geometry)
mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts...
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Mind–body dualism (redirect from Cartesian dualism)
John Foster, Stewart Goetz, Richard Swinburne and Charles Taliaferro. Cartesian dualism, most famously defended by René Descartes, argues that there are...
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Cambridge Platonists – Capitalism – Carlyleanism – Carolingian Renaissance – Cartesianism – Categorical imperative – Chance, Philosophy of – Changzhou School of...
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of Cartesianism at Toulouse (1665), Aigues-Mortes, Montpellier (1671), and Paris (1680). The prohibition issued against the teaching of Cartesianism put...
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François Poullain de la Barre (category Cartesianism)
introduced him to Cartesianism, the philosophy of René Descartes. Poullain de la Barre later adopted the philosophy and applied Cartesian principles to feminist...
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A Cartesian monoid is a monoid, with additional structure of pairing and projection operators. It was first formulated by Dana Scott and Joachim Lambek...
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