Therefore, each individual's perception of physical objects will result in an individual sense of reality for each individual based on the perception of the same group of physical objects. ... The first comparison was that in the pragmatic point of view common-sense objects are able to be viewed or constructed by the individuals according to their experiences. ...
Though the relation of cause and effect seems to be completely logical and based on common sense, he discusses our impressions and ideas and why they are believed. ... We have only two ways of doing that, either by an immediate perception of our memory or senses, called impressions, or, by an inference from other causes, called thoughts. ... Perceptions that enter the body with force form impressions, including sensations, passions and emotions. ... Simple perceptions or ideas admit of no distinction or separation, where complex can be divided into parts. ... Ideas are preceded by other more l...
The idea that time is stationary and that humans advance through it makes much more sense. ... This idea indicates that human consciousness advances up a timelike direction - that because of human consciousness and perception, time has relevance in people's lives where it would not if humans did not impose it upon themselves. ...
ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to layout the primary tenets of the much debated mind/body dualistic argument from the lens of philosophers from the ancient epoch but most elaborately from Rene Descartes. The most critical account of the mind-body theory was first systematically carried out by Descartes. To him, mind and body does not only exist, they are distinct and they causally interact at the pineal gland. Through his notion of clear and distinct ideas, Descartes infers the existence of the mind as a thinking substance and the body as an extended substance; hence the two are independen...
