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Cartesian anxiety — refers to the notion that, ever since René Descartes promulgated his highly influential form of body mind dualism, Western civilization has suffered from a longing for ontological certainty, or feeling that scientific methods, and especially the… … Wikipedia
Cartesian doubt — Certainty series Agnosticism Belief Certainty Doubt Determinism Epistemology Estimation Fallibilism Fa … Wikipedia
Cartesian coordinate system — Illustration of a Cartesian coordinate plane. Four points are marked and labeled with their coordinates: (2, 3) in green, (−3, 1) in red, (−1.5, −2.5) in blue, and the origin (0, 0) in purple. A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point… … Wikipedia
Cartesian linguistics — Noam Chomsky s Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought , published in 1966, has the purpose of deepening our understanding of the nature of language and the mental processes and structures that underlies its use and … Wikipedia
Cartesian Philosophy — The philosophical system of Rene Descartes (1596 1650) was based on doubt, because to doubt is to think. His system became known as Cartesian philosophy, derived from the Latinized form of his name. His most famous conclusion was expressed in… … Dictionary of eponyms
Well-pointed category — In category theory, a cartesian closed category is well pointed if for every pair of arrows f,g:A o B such that f eq g, there is an arrow p:1 o A such that fcirc p eq gcirc p … Wikipedia
Analytic geometry — Cartesian coordinates. Analytic geometry, or analytical geometry has two different meanings in mathematics. The modern and advanced meaning refers to the geometry of analytic varieties. This article focuses on the classical and elementary meaning … Wikipedia
Occasionalism — Daisie Radner The seventeenth century doctrine known as occasionalism arose in response to a perceived problem. Cartesian philosophy generated the problem and provided the context for the answer. In the Cartesian ontology, mind and matter are… … History of philosophy
Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics — Nicholas Jolley Leibniz is in important respects the exception among the great philosophers of the seventeenth century. The major thinkers of the period characteristically proclaim the need to reject the philosophical tradition; in their… … History of philosophy
Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… … History of philosophy
