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  2. The Search for Truth by Natural Light - Wikipedia

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    The Search for Truth by Natural Light [1] (La recherche de la vérité par la lumière naturelle) is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by René Descartes “set in the courtly culture of the ‘ honnête homme ’ and ‘ curiosité ’.” [2] It was written in French (presumably after the Meditations was completed [3]) but that was lost around 1700 and remained lost until a partial copy ...

  3. René Descartes - Wikipedia

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    She clarified that in Descartes's reasoning, you do "end up back in the mind of God"—in a "universe God has created" that is the "real world"...The whole question is about being connected to reality as opposed to being a figment. If you're living in the world God created, God can create real things. So you're living in a real world." [175]

  4. Evil demon - Wikipedia

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    The evil demon, also known as Deus deceptor, [1] malicious demon, [2] and evil genius, [1] [3] is an epistemological concept that features prominently in Cartesian philosophy. [1] In the first of his 1641 Meditations on First Philosophy , Descartes imagines that a malevolent God [ 1 ] or an evil demon , of "utmost power and cunning has employed ...

  5. The World (book) - Wikipedia

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    The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy , from method, to metaphysics , to physics and biology .

  6. Demon (thought experiment) - Wikipedia

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    Evil demon – Cartesian skepticism (also called methodological skepticism) advocates the doubting of all things that cannot be justified through logic. René Descartes uses three arguments to cast doubt on our ability to know objectively: the dream argument, the deceiving God argument, and the malicious demon argument. [4]

  7. Meditations on First Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated (Latin: Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur), often called simply the Meditations, [1] is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641.

  8. Trademark argument - Wikipedia

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    The trademark argument [1] is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. The name derives from the fact that the idea of God existing in each person "is the trademark, hallmark or stamp of their divine creator". [2]

  9. Cartesian circle - Wikipedia

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    René Descartes The Cartesian circle (also known as Arnauld 's circle [ 1 ] ) is an example of fallacious circular reasoning attributed to French philosopher René Descartes . He argued that the existence of God is proven by reliable perception , which is itself guaranteed by God.