Descartes recognized that there would be a real difference, however, between a situation in which a body with movable parts and originally at rest with respect to a surrounding ring was itself accelerated to a certain angular velocity with respect to the ring, and another situation in which the surrounding ring was given a contrary acceleration with respect to the central object.

Here is an everyday experience of the basic nature of the Descartes experiment: Consider sitting in your train and noticing a train originally at rest beside you in the railway station pulling away.

* René Descartes ' Meditations on First Philosophy is originally published.

Sheets-Johnstone compares Rank's thought to that of three major Western philosophers — René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida: " Because immortality ideologies were originally recognized and in fact so named by Rank, a close examination of his writings on the subject is not only apposite but is itself philosophically rewarding ... Rank was a Freudian dissident who, in introducing the concept of immortality ideologies, traced out historical and psychological roots of ' soul-belief ' ( Seelenglaube )... chapter points up the extraordinary cogency of Rank's distinction between the rational and the irrational to the question of the human need for immortality ideologies " ( Sheets-Johnstone, 2008, p. 64 ).

The algorithm for isolating the roots, using Descartes ' rule of signs and Vincent's theorem, had been originally called modified Uspensky's algorithm by its inventors Collins and Akritas.

Lichtenberg originally believed ( like Descartes ) that every explanation of natural phenomena must be based on rectilinear motion and impulsion, and Le Sage's theory fulfilled these conditions.

Armalcolite was originally found on the Moon, in Mare Tranquillitatis at Tranquility Base, and also the Taurus-Littrow valley and Descartes Highlands.

Reflecting an admiration of Voltaire as a free thinker, but also a break in his friendship with composer Richard Wagner two years earlier, Nietzsche dedicated the original 1878 edition of Human, All Too Human “ to the memory of Voltaire on the celebration of the anniversary of his death, May 30, 1778 .” Instead of a preface, the first part originally included a quotation from Descartes ’ Discourse on the Method.

The World, originally titled Le Monde and also called Treatise on the Light, is a book by René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ).

Invented by René Descartes and originally used to locate positions on military maps, this skill is now assumed of everyone who wants to locate grid 7A on any map.

Ampère claimed that " at eighteen years he found three culminating points in his life, his First Communion, the reading of Antoine Leonard Thomas's " Eulogy of Descartes ", and the Taking of the Bastille.

Kant claimed it was Hume ’ s skepticism about the nature of inductive reasoning and the conclusions of rationalist metaphysicians ( Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz ) that " roused him from his dogmatic ( i. e. rationalist ) slumbers " and spurred him on to one of the most far reaching re-evaluations of human reason since Aristotle.

On the night of 10 – 11 November 1619, while stationed in Neuburg an der Donau, Germany, Descartes experienced a series of three powerful dreams or visions that he later claimed profoundly influenced his life.

Heidegger claimed to have revived the question of being, the question having been largely forgotten by the metaphysical tradition extending from Plato to Descartes, a forgetfulness extending to the Age of Enlightenment and then to modern science and technology.

He was sent a cast of philosopher and great thinker, Renés Descartes skull and through his method of phrenology, claimed he had very limited capacity for reasoning and higher cognitions.

While Descartes had already claimed to have confirmed God's existence through previous arguments, this one allows him to put to rest any discontent he might have had with his " distinct and clear " criteria for truth.

Descartes claimed that the only cause to the idea of God must be God himself, but according to Hume, God is a complex idea formed from simple ideas caused by simple impressions.

Philosophers since the time of Descartes and Locke have struggled to comprehend the nature of consciousness and pin down its essential properties.

Descartes proposed that consciousness resides within an immaterial domain he called res cogitans ( the realm of thought ), in contrast to the domain of material things which he called res extensa ( the realm of extension ).

They can be divided broadly into two categories: dualist solutions that maintain Descartes ' rigid distinction between the realm of consciousness and the realm of matter but give different answers for how the two realms relate to each other ; and monist solutions that maintain that there is really only one realm of being, of which consciousness and matter are both aspects.

While Western philosophical traditions, as exemplified by Descartes, equate mind with the conscious self and theorize on consciousness on the basis of mind / body dualism ; some Eastern philosophies provide an alternate viewpoint, intimately related to substance dualism, by drawing a metaphysical line between consciousness and matter — where matter includes both body and mind.

Like Descartes and Kant before him, he was motivated by the problem of subjectivity and consciousness.

Merleau-Ponty demonstrates a corporeity of consciousness as much as an intentionality of the body, and so stands in contrast with the dualist ontology of mind and body in René Descartes, a philosopher to whom Merleau-Ponty continually returned, despite the important differences that separate them.

René Descartes for example argued that animals lack consciousness and therefore do not experience pain and suffering in the way that humans do.

For Descartes, the primary characteristic of matter is extension, just as the primary characteristic of mind is consciousness.

This argument was later refined and simplified by René Descartes in epistemic terms when he stated: " I can abstract from the supposition of all external things, but not from the supposition of my own consciousness.

Descartes wrote that animals act " without consciousness ", much like a machine.

Descartes clearly identified the mind with consciousness and self-awareness and distinguished this from the brain as the seat of intelligence.

The idea that animals might not feel pain as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, René Descartes, who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because they lack consciousness.

", McGinn speculates that the human mind is innately incapable of comprehending itself entirely, and that this incapacity spawns the puzzles of consciousness that have preoccupied Western philosophy since Descartes.

Dennett's thesis is that our modern understanding of consciousness is unduly influenced by the ideas of René Descartes.

According to Descartes, there is a divide intrinsic to human consciousness, such that you cannot ever bridge the space between your own consciousness and that of another.

According to Descartes, there is a divide intrinsic to human consciousness, such that one cannot ever bridge the space between one's own consciousness and that of another.

The theory of Biocentrism argues that the primacy of consciousness features in the work of Descartes, Kant, Leibniz, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, and Bergson.

Jaynes defines consciousness — in the tradition of Locke and Descartes — as " that which is introspectable.

According to René Descartes, rationality is built first upon the realization of the absolute truth " I think therefore I am ", which requires no faith.

In response to Hobbes, the French Philosopher Rene Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed Cartesian Dualism, which posits that there is a divisible, mechanical body and an indivisible, immaterial mind which interact with one another.

The materialist view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically, famously by René Descartes.

Descartes believed inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the Pineal gland | epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit.

Like René Descartes, Malebranche held that humans attain knowledge through ideas – immaterial representations present to the mind.

The central claim of what is often called Cartesian dualism, in honor of Descartes, is that the immaterial mind and the material body, while being ontologically distinct substances, causally interact.

Descartes aim was to find epistemological certainty ( certainty in knowledge ) and part of his project was to prove the existence of an immaterial soul.