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Descartes (crater) (1618 bytes)
20: |[[René Descartes]]
22: '''Descartes''' is a heavily-worn [[lunar]] [[crater]] that is...
24: ...d is completely missing in the north. The crater 'Descartes A' lies across the southwest rim. The interior fl...
30: ...e side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Descartes
34: !width="25%" style="background:#eeeeee;" |Descartes

Descartes' Error (899 bytes)
1: '''''Descartes' Error''''': a book by neurologist Antonio R. Dam...
4: ... the mind and body are independent of each other. Descartes' belief becomes the focus around which Damasio bu...

3587 Descartes (303 bytes)
1: ...huravleva]] in [[1981]]. It is named after [[René Descartes]], the [[seventeenth century]] [[philosopher]].
5: [[Category:Main Belt asteroids|Descartes]]

Descartes Prize (339 bytes)
1: The '''Descartes Prize''' is an annual award in science given by t...

Descartes' theorem (5514 bytes)
1: In [[geometry]], '''Descartes' theorem''' establishes a relationship between fo...
7: [[René Descartes]] touched on the problem briefly in 1643, in a le...
14: Descartes' theorem is most easily stated in terms of the ci...
18: ...rate]] circle with curvature ''k'' = 0, Descartes' theorem also applies to a line and two circles t...
20: ==Descartes' theorem==

René Descartes (10537 bytes)
1: [[image:Descartes.jpg|thumb|250px|right|René Descartes]]
3: '''René Descartes''' ([[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]: {{IP...
5: Descartes, sometimes called ''the founder of modern philoso...
7: ==Descartes' life==
8: Descartes (1596-1650) was born in [[La Haye]], [[Indre-et-L...

Lycée français René Descartes de Phnom Penh (504 bytes)
1: The '''Lycée français René Descartes de Phnom Penh''' is the only private [[france|fre...
11: *[http://www.descartes-cambodge.com Official site]

Cartesian Other (615 bytes)
1: ...erpart to the [[Cartesian Self]]. According to [[Descartes]], there is a divide intrinsic to human conscious...
5: ...hypothetical, as discussed on the wiki page for [[Descartes]]) you could never similarly demonstrate the exis...

Cartesian Self (668 bytes)
1: ...erpart to the [[Cartesian Other]]. According to [[Descartes]], there is a divide intrinsic to human conscious...
3: ...x hypothetical, as discussed on the wiki page for Descartes) you could never similarly demonstrate the existe...

Cartesian fallacy (333 bytes)
1: ...t to describe the view of [[philosopher]] [[René Descartes]] with regard to the human [[mind]] and [[body]]....
3: Descartes considered that the human mind is an independent,...

Mental substance (1063 bytes)
5: [[René Descartes|Descartes]], who was most famous for the assertion "I think...
9: ...]], belonging to the generation immediately after Descartes, held the position that the mental world was buil...

1650 in science (533 bytes)
16: * [[February 11]] - [[René Descartes|Rene Descartes]], [[mathematician]]

Elzevir (572 bytes)
1: ...publishers of new work by [[René Descartes|Descartes]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and [[Hugo Grotiu...

Extension (metaphysics) (515 bytes)
1: ...erty of existing in more than one dimension. For Descartes, the primary characteristic of [[matter]] is exte...

The Description of the Human Body (2233 bytes)
1: ...e written in the [[1640s]] by [[René Descartes]]. Descartes felt knowing oneself was particularly useful. Th...
3: René Descartes believed the soul caused conscious thought. The...
5: René Descartes believed the body could exist through mechanical ...
7: ...ped the idea of the circulation of the blood.)'' Descartes felt that an energetic part of blood went to the...
12: ...mp/modules/ihmp0304/units/unit09/dcbody.html René Descartes: The Description of the Human Body]

Meditations on First Philosophy (2136 bytes)
3: ...- 1650) and first published in 1641, expands upon Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced ...
5: ...ook is made up of 6 ''meditations'', during which Descartes discards all belief that is not absolutely certai...
9: The second meditation contains Descartes' argument for the certainty of one's own existenc...
13: ... my consciousness implies my existence. In one of Descartes' replies to objections to the book, he summed thi...
18: *[http://www.classicallibrary.org/descartes/meditations/ ''The Meditations'']

Cartesian (631 bytes)
3: ... to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. See:
5: *[[René Descartes]], after whom the term is named

1649 in science (667 bytes)
6: ...es brièves'', the first important introduction to Descartes' cartesian geometry

Substance dualism (1706 bytes)
1: ...s not extend in space, and material cannot think. Descartes imagined that the soul, a mental substance, could...
3: ...t physically, while the body is merely a machine. Descartes considered animals to be machines with no souls, ...

The Concept of Mind (896 bytes)
1: ...a different place altogether. The same is done by Descartes, according to Ryle, and it becomes necessary to a...

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