Crossword-Solution: DESCARTES
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| French philosopher and mathematician | 1 answer |
| introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions | 1 answer |
| developed dualistic theory of mind and matter | 1 answer |
| French philosopher known for "I think, therefore I am" | 1 answer |
| Philosopher René | 1 answer |
| His motto: Cogito, ergo sum. | 1 answer |
| He was famously rational | 1 answer |
| He fathered analytical geometry | 1 answer |
| Great mathematician. | 1 answer |
| French philosopher, d. 1650 | 1 answer |
| FRENCH metaphysician | 1 answer |
| Cogito ergo sum man | 1 answer |
| Cartesians are his followers | 1 answer |
| 'I think, therefore I am' thinker | 1 answer |
| "Cogito ergo sum" source | 1 answer |
| "Cogito ergo sum" philosopher | 1 answer |
| COGITO | 6 answers |
| FRENCH philosopher | 15 answers |
| Rationalisation | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DESCARTES (5)
This is my prediction: you will be, Proudhon, in spite of yourself, inevitably, by the fact of your destiny, a writer, an author; you will be a philosopher; you will be one of the lights of the century, and your name will occupy a place in the annals of the nineteenth century, like those of Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, and Bacon in the seventeenth, and those of Diderot, Montesquieu, Helvetius.
The great philosophers Montaigne and Descartes, seduced at an early age by the allurements of gambling, managed at length to overcome the evil, presenting examples of reformation--which proves that this mania is not absolutely incurable.
For there came, one after the other, five of the greatest men our race has produced--Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton--and when their work was done the old theological conception of the universe was gone.
And lastly, others maintained that, by walking much in the dark about the library, he had quite lost the situation of it out of his head; and therefore, in replacing his books, he was apt to mistake and clap Descartes next to Aristotle, poor Plato had got between Hobbes and the Seven Wise Masters, and Virgil was hemmed in with Dryden on one side and Wither on the other.
Aristotle and Plato and Epicurus and Descartes may successively yield to each other: but Terence and Virgil maintain an universal, undisputed empire over the minds of men.
Quotes with DESCARTES (3)
It's a philosophical minefield!" Cabal had a brief mental image of Aristotle walking halfway across an open field before unexpectedly disappearing in a fireball. Descartes and Nietzsche looked on appalled. He pulled himself together.
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of putting the theme which comes to life at the beginning of philosophy in antiquity, and it assumes its most grandiose form in Hegel's logic. At present we are merely asserting that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. Negatively, this means that philosophy is not a science of beings but of Being or, as the Greek expression goes, ontology. We take this…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2018).