Principles of Flight

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Cartesian doubt: From the philosopher Descartes. Questioned everything. From laexistencia the world to his own. Is to doubt everything will gradually be able to at least discover a truth beyond doubt. The only indubitable truth that was discovered by the "cogito ergo sum". I think, therefore I am.

if you think, I am.
Rationalism: The thesis that all our knowledge about reality come not from the senses, but of reason, of understanding itself.
2. Knowledge can be constructed deductively from first principles.
3. The first principles of knowledge can not be extracted from experience but is already on the ground: elinnatismo of ideas.
Kantian apriorism: So Kant conceives of knowledge as the union of a 'matter' (given by experience) and a `how '(knowledge). In Kantian terms: the material is` a posteriori', and the form is ` a priori '... The Kantian priori, therefore, means that there is `something' in our empirical knowledge of the world that comes from experience, it is` as' a priori by the subject. What? This: time-space structures and categories such as `cause 'and` effect', `substance 'and` accident', `possible ',` reality' and so on. ...
ARGUMENT IN DESIGN: argument for the existence of god based on the premise that there would be a perceived evidence of a world and a universe "designed". It is based on those aspects of the world to be complex, appear to have been designed, and therefore, seem to obey a goal or purpose of an intelligent
Pascal's Wager: If we do not believe in God and existed we would be damned, if there were not win or lose anything.
If we believe in God and gain the paradise existed, if there were not win or lose anything.
Thus demonstrated that it is more profitable to believe (we win or not) who do not believe (or lose). "
Inheritance of acquired characters: The environment influences the shape and organization of the animals, the continuous or frequent use develops and increases the size of any organ, while the permanent disuse weakens and eventually disappears, all acquisitions and losses are due to the influence of environment, as through use and disuse are preserved by reproduction "

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