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What if the Evil Genius in Descartes' "I think therefore I am" put into our minds the action of doubting?
I am briefly aware of Descartes' argument that even if an Evil Genius made us believe that the world is real the fact that we can doubt this shows that we are thinking and that through thought we can ...
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What does Helmuth Plessner mean by : 'the human being is at a distance to her boundary'?
Plessner defines living organims in terms of a boundary between It and the environment.
http://helmuth-plessner.de/en/helmuth-plessner/denken/
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Did Charles Darwin say anything on why life was formed in the first place? [closed]
To be viewed from the perspective of epistemology and/or the philosophy of science.
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Darwin, like scientists of his day, often spoke of “Laws” that inevitably cycle forth the results ...
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