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    existence of an object is not necessarily associated with the sense-data as different people receive different sense-data when they are under the belief that they are viewing the same object (Russell 20). In addition‚ a person would only know the certainty of perceived sense-data rather than of the object since sense-data depends on the perception and relation of the object to the perceiver (Russell 16). Russell then states that although there is no proof of a physical world‚ the belief that there

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    Additionally‚ I could not have put the sum of the angles to equal 180 degrees. Therefore‚ whether I want this axiom or if I ever thought of it previously or imaged it‚ they necessarily exist. According to Descartes‚ this proves beyond any possibility of doubt that the sum of the angles of 180 degrees could not have been invented‚ but instead it pertains to the nature of a triangle that was not invented by me or in my

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    those who have deceived us‚ even if only once’. The reason why this doubt is universal is that senses give no way to distinguish a true from a false perception. Descartes is not saying here that the senses are wrong‚ but simply that we cannot be certain that everything they tell us is correct. Having realised that our senses deceive us and so we cannot trust them‚ Descartes immediately raises an objection: if it is reasonable to doubt what the senses tell us about those things that they perceive only

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    The Victorian age (1832-19019: GENERAL FEATURES The 1832 Great Reform Bill is generally taken as the watershed between the Romantic Age and the so-called Victorian Age. The age that was taking shape in those years and that ended at the beginning of our century was much less homogeneous than it may appear at a superficial analysis. It was an age of extremes and contradictions under a surface of balance and respectability. The key-ideas that intersected in the seventy years of Queen Victoria’s

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    of our ideas are built up from our experience. They are well known as Hume‚ Lock and Berkeley. All of them try to find answers to the same metaphysical and epistemological questions. Some of these questions are ¡°What is knowledge?¡± ¡°Is there certainty knowledge?¡± and ¡°Does God exist?¡± As a rationalist‚ Descartes believes that reason forms the basis of our knowledge and an important group of fundamental concepts. Descartes says these concepts are innate ideas‚ the most important of theses including

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    liability beyond a reasonable doubt by admissible evidence within a court of law. Criminal liability - the degree of blameworthiness assigned to the defendants as a result of legal adjudication Elements of a crime – the five key elements common to almost all criminal statutes which must be proven within the court of law beyond a reasonable doubt according to the rules of criminal procedure to establish legal guilt. THE MATERIAL ELEMENTS OF CRIME a. “beyond a reasonable doubt” - the standard of proof

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    (literature‚ Oratory and Poetry‚ Mathematics‚ Theology‚ Philosophy‚ and Sciences) so that only knowledge that is absolutely certain can be used. In his search for true knowledge‚ Descartes used the method of doubt to separate the the knowledge that was without a doubt true from those who still needed certainty. Descartes rejected anything that could not be proven. He refused to accept knowledge through senses because they can deceive. for example‚ when some one is dreaming‚ their senses deceive them by making

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    ACCT 112: PRINCIPLES OF ACCOUNTING 1 ACCOUNTING THEORY NOTES (a) International Accounting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards. The foreword to accounting standards defines Accounting Standards as Authoritative statements of how particular types of transaction and other events should be reflected in financial statements. Accounting Standards are developed to achieve comparability of financial information between and among different organizations. International Accounting

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    I know‚ a deceitful and all powerful intelligence has so programmed me that I find myself regarding as absolute certainties propositions that in fact are not true at all. He perceives God to be real but he doesnt want to be decieved from the devil. He realizes that some one in the world can be smarter than him but cant be smarter than God. I believe his view on the evil demon puts doubt in his head and try to make him think otherwise. 4) Explain and evaluate the views of Oliva Sabuco de Nantes

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    In Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes‚ the author mentioned that he contemplated that he had frequently found himself to be wrong in his opinions and judgments with respect to matters that he hitherto thought were established beyond doubt‚ and he rectified to eliminate and wipe out all his preconceived ideas‚ reconstructing his knowledge‚ and believe or come to recognise only the statements that are valid or correct. Through his senses came all he had formerly thought he perceived.

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