Descartes
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- proper noun
- /deɪˈkɑrt/
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Descartes
- And you know, as Descartes says, I think therefore I am.
- René Descartes
- Bacon and Descartes
- Descartes to Locke
You know, Descartes, Renee, Descartes said I think therefore I am.
- You know, Descartes, Renee, Descartes said I think therefore I am.
- OK, Descartes is, I think, therefore I am, yes, right.
- For starters, she's not a detached mind like Descartes was.
- But it's clear that Descartes himself thought that certainty does confer truth.
- It goes back to the sceptics and up through Descartes.
- So Descartes sort of pioneered how you put numbers on a graph.
- You lose, right, Descartes, you know, you lose.
- Anybody could step into Descartes proverbial shoes, right?
- This is all within the domain for Descartes of the will.
- One of my bet noir, of course, is Descartes, the duelist.
- Maybe it's Descartes, maybe it's Hume, maybe it's Epicurus.
- And so they're sort of unpacking this idea from Descartes.
Examples
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In his famous work, Descartes argues that the mind and body are separate entities that interact with each other.
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Well, I teach Descartes in my intro class, but I specialize in linguistics, the philosophy of language.
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Try to imagine my mind, says Descartes, without my body.
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Science since Descartes' time has found that animals are made up of the same sort of stuff.
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Descartes believed only humans had mind.
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Perhaps more than any other philosopher, Descartes requires you to use your imagination.
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Your countryman, the philosopher Descartes, is coming here.
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Descartes provided for the subjective nature of experience.
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In the Treatise on Light, Descartes argues that images never accurately represent reality or truth.
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In the Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Descartes calls this quantitative paradigm of the universe Mathesis Universalis.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Descartes is the family name of the French thinker René Descartes and comes from French parts de or des meaning 'from' and a place name like Cartes. Because he was a famous mathematician and philosopher, his name is used for things like the 'Cartesian' coordinate system, so the name now reminds us of his ideas in math and thought.