Rene Descartes had a remarkably short working life, yet his contribution to philosophy and physics have endured to this day. He is perhaps best known for his statement, "Cogito, ergo sum," the cornerstone of his metaphysics. Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his ...
Descartes is one of the greatest of all thinkers. Modern philosophy is generally taken to begin with him. His unique contribution to Western thought covers not only philosophy but also science and mathematics; his studies in mechanics and optics have provided modern science with tools still used ...
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1 I hope to make a contribution here. A considerable amount of evidence exists supporting the general thesis. Some of it is indirect, displaying that Descartes sought just the sort of axiomatically structured scientific theories that the ancients used the method of analysis and synthesis to ...
The paper try to provide a contribution to the scientific—historiographic debate concerning the relations between experiments, metaphysics and mathematics in Descartes' physics. The three works on which the analysis is focused are the and the two physical essays: and Les Météores. The authors ...
Frege accepted a holistic notion of meaning. The meaning of a word is its contribution to actual assertions. 18_20世纪 - 分析哲学的兴起 P6 - 06:28 Sign for assertion:⊦ .Assertion adds or does something to a statement it asserts that it's true ...
for he interprets motion as a phenomenal contribution of the mind, such that the plenum and its parts do not move or change at all. Along these same lines, some scholars (e.g., Schaffer 2009) have concluded that Descartes was a supersubstantivalist, i.e., the view that space (spacet...
He made an important contribution to the development of modern mathematics, and was considered the father of analytic geometry because of the formulation of the geometric coordinate system. He was also the founder of Western modern philosophical thinking, and he first created a complete philosophical ...
This account of the Geometry is a contribution toward a naturalistic understanding of mathematical inquiry in general. ;This dissertation first examines an account by Putnam of goals of mathematical inquiry. This ...