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    René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 ...
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    to three given, mutually tangent circles. The theorem is named after René Descartes, who stated it in 1643. Frederick Soddy's 1936 poem The Kiss Precise...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • In mathematics, Descartes' rule of signs, first described by René Descartes in his work La Géométrie, is a technique for getting information on the number...
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    Philosophy (Principia Philosophiae) from 1644, the French philosopher René Descartes defined "quantity of motion" (Latin: quantitas motus) as the product...
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    {{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024 (link) Descartes, René. (2016). The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings...
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    Cartesian doubt (category René Descartes)
    methodological skepticism associated with the writings and methodology of René Descartes (March 31, 1596–February 11, 1650).: 88  Cartesian doubt is also known...
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    The Lycée français René Descartes de Phnom Penh is a private French school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, operated under agreement with the Agency for French...
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    objects gravitated towards their designated natural place-of-belonging. Descartes set out to replace the Aristotelian worldview with a theory about space...
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    philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The French translation (by the Duke of Luynes with Descartes' supervision) was published...
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  • existent". Seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes employed a similar argument to Anselm's. Descartes published several variations of his argument...
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    Snell's law (redirect from Descartes law)
    mathematically equivalent form, that remained unpublished during his lifetime. René Descartes independently derived the law using heuristic momentum conservation...
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    philosopher René Descartes, virtue consists in the correct reasoning that should guide our actions. Men should seek the sovereign good that Descartes, following...
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  • have evolved through Darwinian natural selection. Damásio refers to René Descartes' separation of the mind from the body (the mind/body dualism) as an...
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  • early modern philosophy of René Descartes, between thought and extension (in common language, mind and matter). Descartes believed that thought (subjectivity)...
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    philosopher best known for her correspondence with René Descartes. She was critical of Descartes' dualistic metaphysics and her work anticipated the...
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    philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy networks of the day. Descartes had a more...
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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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  • scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century philosophy of science, existentialism, phenomenology...
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    unfamiliar with the internalist-externalist debate himself, many point to René Descartes as an early example of the internalist path to justification. He wrote...
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    organ. Philosopher René Descartes expanded upon this idea and is most widely known for his work on the mind–body problem. Often Descartes's ideas were looked...
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    Cartesianism (category René Descartes)
    Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably...
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  • the French rationalist philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), and continues to be associated with him. Descartes posited that the body, being physical...
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  • Enlightenment: From Descartes to Kant. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. Hatfield, Gary (2018), "René Descartes", in Zalta, Edward N...
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    theorized that the world was a painting or book written by the Teotl. René Descartes' evil demon philosophically formalized these epistemic doubts, to be...
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    In geometry, the folium of Descartes (from Latin folium 'leaf'; named for René Descartes) is an algebraic curve defined by the implicit equation x 3 +...
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