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" René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the most important Western philosophers of the past few centuries. During his lifetime, Descartes was just as famous as an original physicist, physiologist and mathematician. But it is as a hig ...

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" Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is a book written by George Berkeley in 1713. "The most important concepts in the Three Dialogues are: perceptual relativity, the conceivability ("master") argument and ...

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" Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgement , also known as the third critique, simultaneously completes Kant's Critical project and lays the foundations for modern aesthetics . The standard English translation is the one made by James C ...

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" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz (July 1 (June 21 Old Style ) 1646 – November 14, 1716) was a German polymath who wrote primarily in Latin and French. "He occupies an equally grand place in both the ...

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" The Monadology ( Monadologie , 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz ’s works that best define his philosophy, monadism . Written toward the end of his life in order to support a metaphysics of simple substances, the Mo ...

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