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    The first competency emphasized a good cooperation with other health care professions. The difficulty in developing this competency may due to the patient specific conditions that may give a health care provider more “tough time” if proper communication were not made before interacting with the patient. For example‚ during my first clinical rotation‚ My CI needed to treat her last patient of the day‚ however‚ the patient was in a bad mood and reluctant to participate to therapy. My CI asked me to

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    In addition‚ these changes can be further distinguished in Descartes belief that he can develop assertions of existence from his conception of ‘I think.’ For Descartes‚ res cogitans is established to be a finite substance. However‚ he concludes that an infinite substance‚ God‚ could not have originated in himself and therefore must be the cause of this idea‚ which results in God necessarily existing - ‘the idea that enables me to understand a supreme deity‚ eternal‚ infinite‚ omniscient‚ omnipotent

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    Descartes constructs an argument for God’s existence on page 32-34 of his third meditation titled: Concerning God and He Exists. In this paper‚ I will summarize Descartes’s argument in my own words. Descartes is trying to find where his thoughts of God are coming from. He knows they couldn’t come from himself because for one he doubts‚ he has desires and he lacks stuff. Now‚ he is calling into question whether they are from his parents‚ but there is a problem with that interpretation too because

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    To: Jeff Newcomb From: Quoc Nguyen‚ QN PS7655 Date: April 17‚ 2013 Subject: Meditation of Introducing Apple Television Attachment: Why an Apple TV Won’t Happen Anytime Soon The Achievement of Apple Inc. And The Procrastination of Apple TV The Apple corporation is one of the biggest company in the technology industry in the world. It produces unique and simple technology products that make a great impact on technology industry. For example‚ iPod eliminated the portable CD players in the market. iPhone

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    Descartes claims in his Discourse on Method that our dreams and conscious thoughts are untrue‚ but is this truly the case? Because of these questions of existence‚ it seems like‚ if Descartes’s arguments are taken a certain way‚ his arguments might be taken to imply that our lives are just a dream. Are we living in a universal soap opera directed by the Divine‚ and the question of who shot J.R. will never be resolved because we will all wake on Judgment Day from the dream of existence? If we are

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    Md‚ Muzahid Mrs. Tourout‚ L. HZT4U1-02 13-10-13 Philosophy Paper The theory of dualism by Rene Descartes is shown in the movie "The Matrix". Descartes ’ quoted "I think‚ therefore I am" defines that the proof of one ’s existence is in the observation of what they thought‚ if one can think‚ he/she exists. The theory of dualism states that humans are made up of two substances‚ a material

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    Locke and Rene Descartes were two of the most influential philosophers of the 17th century. The two of them both sought answers to aid them in understanding things about knowledge‚ such as how we attain it and what exactly it is‚ and they also had differing opinions about whether or not there was absolute certainty in knowledge. Although it can be said that the philosophies of Locke and Descartes were different‚ I believe that they have a few things in common. Both Locke and Descartes definitions

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    Descartes reminisces on what he knows is certain. He opens this review by first being doubtful of all bodies‚ but absolutely certain of his existence since he needs existence to think and doubt. Therefore‚ if he is anything‚ it is that he is a “thinking thing” with all these capabilities to help him make sense of the world. Descartes thus is certain that he is a “thinking thing” with the ability to will‚ understand and imagine in addition to doubt. He states that this is a clear and distinct perception

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    Descartes: Proof of God’s existence and human error Unlike considerations emanating from theologians as to how proof that their God‚ defined as an active being by itself‚ was not an invention‚ the demonstration Descartes does regarding the proof of the existence of God and therefore the human error is simple: it shows God from man. Descartes says‚ "I would not have the idea of an infinite substance‚ me as a finite being‚ if it had been placed in me by some substance that was truly infinite."

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    Galileo‚ Descartes‚ and Newton were only some of the enlightened thinkers responsible for the shift in scientific understanding. Previously‚ science in Europe did little without relying on the church‚ but these scientific thinkers set the stage for a modern scientific model that separated the spiritual from the physical and strived to learn the natural laws that governed the physical world. Each one of these men‚ through their different researches‚ helped Europe see a world that was not necessarily

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