René Descartes (/deɪˈkɑːrt/ day-KART or UK: /ˈdeɪkɑːrt/ DAY-kart; French: [ʁəne dekaʁt] ; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650): 58 was a French philosopher...
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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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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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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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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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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, first described by René Descartes in his work La Géométrie, is a technique for getting information on the number...
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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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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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Momentum (section René Descartes)
Philosophy (Principia Philosophiae) from 1644, the French philosopher René Descartes defined "quantity of motion" (Latin: quantitas motus) as the product...
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