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What logical arguments have been made to say an effect cannot be greater than its cause?
I know next to nothing about Descartes, so I will trust Jo Wehler's answer to be the correct one. As an aside, you might want to consider a parallel with the principle of conservation of energy in ...
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What logical arguments have been made to say an effect cannot be greater than its cause?
I assume that the passage you rephrase as Descartes’ claim “no effect can be greater than its cause” is
Iam vero lumine naturali manifestum est tantundem ad minimum esse
debere in causa efficiente et ...
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Burden of proof and solipsism
So you think that the world is your idea? I know that I am a conscious being and can think. I can reasonably infer the existence of other minds. Using reason to analyse evidence, it appears that the ...
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Does Dissociative ego disorder challenge Descartes‘ „cogito-argument“?
What about the unconscious and the subconscious? Remember the subconscious is the filter but really who is behind the wheel is our “life long recorder,” our unconscious always recording everything in ...
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Does Dissociative ego disorder challenge Descartes‘ „cogito-argument“?
It depends on which chapter of the Meditations we are focused on. What’s in the second meditation is merely that one cannot doubt their own existence, since the very doubting necessitates that one ...
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Does Dissociative ego disorder challenge Descartes‘ „cogito-argument“?
"I think, therefore I am" does not imply that the person thinking and being is eternal. It just says that one cannot doubt one's own existence, as and when one thinks about it. If and when ...
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Could 'cogito ergo sum' possibly be false?
If we cannot truly know anything then science and philosophy are futile. But one thing I can know for sure is that I think. Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am. Let's explore the alternative ...
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