(often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res cogitans. Translated from Latin, "res extensa" means "extended thing" while the latter is described...
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phrases: Res divina (service of the gods) Res cogitans Descartes' mental world Res extensa Descartes' physical world Res gestae (Things done) Res inter alios...
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Mental substance (redirect from Res cogitans)
describes his theory of mental substance (which he calls res cogitans distinguishing it from the res extensa) in the Second Meditation (II.8) and in Principia...
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Cogito, ergo sum (redirect from Sum res cogitans)
cogito, ergo sum—res cogitans ("…—a thinking thing") extends the cogito with Descartes's statement in the subsequent Meditation, "Ego sum res cogitans, id...
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the body and the soul: the soul thinks (res cogitans) but is incorporeal, while the body is physical (res extensa) but does not think and is primarily defined...
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expelling the final cause from the physical universe (or res extensa) in favor of the mind (or res cogitans). Therefore, while Cartesian dualism paved the...
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distinguishing between the substances of the human body ("res extensa") and the mind or soul ("res cogitans"). This crucial distinction would be left unresolved...
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Folium Rule of signs Cartesian diver Balloonist theory Wax argument Res cogitans Res extensa Works Rules for the Direction of the Mind The Search for Truth...
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"Design". Oxford English Dictionary, substantive number 4. Manning, Russell Re. 2013. "Introduction". Pp. 1–9 in The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology...
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Ship of Theseus Graziano, Richard G. "Descartes’ wax argument for the sum res cogitans". Newman, Lex, "Descartes' Epistemology", The Stanford Encyclopedia...
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substance which presumably underlies reality as a whole into "res cogitans" and "res extensa" is more properly characterized as a prime example of a "category...
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characteristic of matter is extension (res extensa), just as the primary characteristic of mind is thought (res cogitans). After rejecting Cartesian identification...
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thus accepting the existence of a material world (res extensa) as well as immaterial minds (res cogitans) and God, Berkeley denies the existence of...
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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)...
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it seems that Descartes' project for understanding the world was that of re-creating creation—a cosmological project which aimed, through Descartes' particular...
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theory that the universe is composed of two essential substances: res cogitans and res extensa. Popperian cosmology rejects this essentialism, but maintains...
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large intestine, the answer would have to be invented. But, no mathematical re-arrangement of a triangle could allow its three internal angles to sum to...
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(philosophy) Quantity Reality Reduction (philosophy) Relational space Res extensa Philosophy of self Soul Stoic Categories Subject (philosophy) Substantial...
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form of natural substance known as res cogitans that obeyed different laws from those obeyed by solid matter (res extensa). Although Descartes' duality of...
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consists of both ontologically real "possibles" (res potentia) and ontologically real "actuals" (res extensa), Kauffman co-authored, with Ruth Kastner and...
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