Locke is considered to be the founder of British empiricism, while Descartes is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. ... Like logic it is a demonstrative science, mathematical truths are true by definition. Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a "science of abstractions." ...

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Final Examination 1. Heraclitus makes the statement that "you can't step into the same river twice." This comes from the idea that the river is flowing and ever changing. With its constant flow, by the time you put your foot in take it out and put it back in again, the water you first touched will already be traveling down the river. For Heraclitus, reality is just like this changing flowing river. ...

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David Hume's philosophy of religion is fatal to the natural revelation of Deism. ... Hume's purpose is to vitiate the Argument from Design more completely, and to this end he skillfully balances his words among the protagonists; to let the currency of his argument fall upon the shoulders of one person alone would not only destroy the Dialogue by definition, but would also diminish that dramatic interest in it which also constitutes its value. ...

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