René Préval

Have you ever wondered, why teeth can change in color? The foods you eat and the liquids you drink affect the surface of your teeth. They can cause those pearly whites to either decay or stain. Knowing this we asked ourselves, what do different liquids do to your teeth? TEETH Chomp, chomp, chomp! For a very long time many of us have been wondering, what are teeth and what are they made of? Are they bones? We have your answer. They are a calcified tissue called dentin and other…

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) published a series of thought experiments in 1641 called Meditations on First Philosophy. At the beginning of the Third Meditation, Descartes outlines the Problem of the External World. Predictably, without reading the First and Second Meditations, the problem is difficult to grasp. Therefore, I will provide a summary of what took place before I continue. In the First Meditation, Descartes, contemplates the great number of falsehoods he has come to believe over the…

Francis Bacon is a world-renowned English philosopher from the early years of 1561-1626. Bacon is famous for many of his philosophical works, including the Novum Organum. Published in 1620 the Novum Organum suggests an entirely new system of logic, which is based on induction rather than on the syllogism. Bacon recognized that the human mind is filled with incorrect and irrational ideas that are preventing them from interpreting nature accurately. These incorrect notions are described by Bacon…

So far, I have explained the development of a Newtonian approach to medicine as the result of the combination of a mechanical approach and a strict mathematical treatment of physiology, which ended in Cheyne’s iatromathematics. As Guerrini suggests, this combination is framed in the use of forces between particles as causes for several physiological phenomena and, particularly, those of the secretions. By emphasizing the mathematical elements of the demonstration, the Newtonian physicians…

In the film, Stranger than Fiction, director, Marc Forster demonstrated the concept that the inevitability of fate is often presupposed. However, in reality, the small, seemingly insignificant acts can influence, and eventually alter the outcomes in life. His development of the main characters, Harold and Karen, the filming techniques used, and the use of motifs, imagery and symbolism augmented the strength of this idea. Additionally, the manner in which Forster developed the plot, and the…

major strength of Rationalism is its universality. If I can think something is true, you can too! The lack of interest Rationalism has in sensory input is definitely a weakness. There are senses such as taste that cannot be proved by logic alone. Rene Descartes had a theory about wax and rationalism, called The Wax Argument. Descartes suggests that when we see, touch, or smell wax in its solid form we all call it wax, however, when that wax is melted it has changed completely but we still call…

Locke, Hume, Mill, and the Mysterious Disappearance of Descartes René Descartes, born in France in the 17th century, laid the foundation of modern philosophy. In fact, due to his numerous contributions to the field, he is still considered to be the “father of philosophy.” Though a renowned philosopher, he also made considerable contributions to the fields of science and math, including the Cartesian coordinates, reflection and refraction of light, and analytical geometry (Infoplease, n.d).…

Descartes, Rene’ was born in the era of the seventh century and the year was 1569- 1650 he was a man that so imputed by world of Philosophy of physics and to get humans to be able to understand that there comprehensive understanding of how the world should view all walks of life this might be a bird flying in the sky and to ask all questions about the bird, and in the end there would be and understanding of the bird existence, making sure to build a philosophical system that would include how…

In the Meditations On First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, Descartes begins questioning the world and his existence, specifically in the “Second Meditation”. In the “Second Meditation”, Descartes claims that all he can know for certain is that he, himself, is a thinking thing. He comes to this realization after he began to doubt everything that he had ever believed in his life. Descartes came to the conclusion that everything he had ever known in his life has been a result of his senses, however…

Ramonda Sinkfield PHIL 2010 Professor James June 16, 2018 Unit 2 Writing Assignment John Locke and Rene Descartes studied and discussed consciousness, the self, and personal identity in their work. They had different views on how the self was different from the brain or from the mind and on how knowledge is gained. However, their main concept was rationalism verses empiricism. According to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it is a study that “rationalists claim that there are significant ways…