Descartes (1596-1650), the founder of modern philosophy
Alexandra Gvozdevahas quoted6 months ago
perhaps a majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called 'idealists'
Alexandra Gvozdevahas quoted6 months ago
Cogito, ergo sum
Relja Glisichas quoted8 months ago
But science habitually assumes, at least as a working hypothesis, that general rules which have exceptions can be replaced by general rules which have no exceptions
Akhmad Kamilovhas quotedlast year
Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists
JMAINA PUNZALANhas quoted2 years ago
Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753). His Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, undertake to prove that there is no such thing as matter at all, and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ideas.
JMAINA PUNZALANhas quoted2 years ago
If, then, we cannot trust what we see with the naked eye, why should we trust what we see through a microscope? Thus, again, the confidence in our senses with which we began deserts us.
JMAINA PUNZALANhas quoted2 years ago
no two can see it from exactly the same point of view, and any change in the point of view makes some change in the way the light is reflected.
b9671117564has quoted3 years ago
our instinctive beliefs do not clash, but form a harmonious system.
b9671117564has quoted3 years ago
Most philosophers, rightly or wrongly, believe that philosophy can do much more than this—that it can give us knowledge, not otherwise attainable, concerning the universe as a whole, and concerning the nature of ultimate reality.