Descartes Philosophical Concepts and Definitions

Descartes Philosophical Concepts

Descartes: Soul substance, the parts composing the human structure together with the entirely proper body.

Core Philosophical Terms

• Analysis: Process of thought and part of the mathematics.
• Aptitude: Inclination toward something, a series that depends on personal own knowledge.
• Good Sense: Consists in the inherent power and effect of distinguishing what is true and false.
• Chain of Reasons: Deductive process followed in mathematics; all reasoning truths are derived from these evident principles, clear and distinct.
• Certainty: The firm state of the mind that assures knowledge of the truth.
• Science: Knowledge that is a mode of being able to formulate principles, laws, and true theories.
• Circumspection: Analyzing with all elements and thoroughness that intervene in a problem.
• Clear: Clear is that event and present, attentive spirit manifest to one, just as we say that we clearly see objects when, standing before us with enough strength and acting with our disposed eyes, they are at him.
• Conceive: To form a round, produced concept.
• Confusion: It is otherwise being different from.
• Knowledge: To know is to ascertain by means of the nature of the understanding of things, things that are.
• Mode: It is a mode that can be divided unlimitedly.
• Thing: All that has entity, whether spiritual or corporeal.
• Extension: That which has length and width, which can also be measured and expressed geometrically.
• Body: Material object that is characterized by possessing the 3 principal dimensions: length, height, and depth.
• Deduce: It is a type of reasoning starting from premises that, if they are true, the conclusion should be true.
• Demonstration: Argumentation through which a conclusion is obtained from true first premises.
• Distinction: It is that event of a different mode and different state compared to all others, only comprehended by parts as considered by whoever makes it precise.
• God: God is infinite. We call substance that substance which we understand perfectly and in which we conceive nothing that lacks anything or includes any limitation to the perfection of it.
• Doubt: It is the first stance against indecision.
• Error: Equivocal concept or false trial.
• Evidence: Uptake of the truth through simple inspection of a mind.
• Exist: It refers to that which is there, in terms of commonality, a real thing that is.
• Imagination: The mental faculty that is characterized by the production of conscious images.
• Logic: It usually denotes the study of the conditions of valid inference.
• Method: A way to make the journey, so to say or do something with order.