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    Chinese. It was a rack with beads strung on wires that could be moved to make calculations. The first digital computer is usually accredited to Blaise Pascal. In 1642 he made the device to aid his father‚ who was a tax collector. In 1694 Gottfried Leibniz improved the machine so that with the rearrangement of a few parts it could be used to multiply. The next logical advance came from Thomas of Colmar in 1890‚ who produced a machine that could perform all of the four basic operations‚ addition

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    This displays one of the many inventions and contributions Newton made to several fields of study during his time. The majority of Newton’s work was done in the scientific field even though he is considered to be a founder of calculus alongside Gottfried Leibniz. By devoting his years to his studies‚

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    Isaac Newton may have been the greatest and most influential scientist and mathematician in history‚ but he would not appreciate that title. For Newton didn’t invent calculus and create the basis for modern physics under pressure and for a purpose‚ he was‚ as he said “only like a boy playing on the sea shore” (Gleick 4). Newton‚ for most of his life‚ was quiet and kept his work to himself. He suffered a rather formalistic childhood without a father; his mother married a rich man who wanted a wife

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    regarded philosophers was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He founded this idea of supreme optimism. His theory was that since God is a benevolent deity all is good in the world no matter what happens. In other words everything happens for a reason‚ but that reason is always a good one. Voltaire saw it otherwise and gave multiple examples to back his defense. The first example revolves around Candide’s teacher Pangloss who is a supreme believer in the optimistic teachings of Leibniz. Pangloss had gone

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    believed that all of creation that is visible to the human eye could only have been created by a perfect and all powerful God. Gottfried Leibniz supported this by arguing that “There is‚ therefore‚ or there can be conceived‚ a subject of all perfections‚ or most perfect Being. Whence it follows also that He exists‚ for existence is among the number of his perfections” (Leibniz). To him‚ the qualification for a perfect God was a God that existed. René Descartes‚ an influential Enlightenment thinker‚

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    er Gottfried Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another."[13] Biologist Jeremy Griffith defines love as "unconditional selflessness".[14] Love is sometimes referred to as an "international language" that overrides cultural and linguistic divisions.[clarification needed] Impersonal love A person can be said to love an object‚ principle‚ or goal to which they are deeply committed and greatly value. For example‚ compassionate outreach and volunteer workers’ "love"

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    Time. Diana Mertz Hsieh. September‚ 2004. May‚ 2012. <http://www.dianahsieh.com/docs/kot.pdf> Leibniz’s Influence on Kant. Catherine Wilson. June 2008. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. May‚ 2012. <http: plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-leibniz/> Newton’s Views on Space‚ Time‚ and Motion. Robert Rynasiewicz. August‚ 2011. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. May‚ 2012. <http:// plato.stanford.edu/entries/newton-stm/> Yourgrau‚ Palle. A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy Of

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    It was a satire of the prevalent philosophical optimism by Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz. Voltaire was also moved by events like The Seven Years’ War‚ and the 1775 Lisbon earthquake. He felt like optimism was a naive and irregular way of viewing the world. Throughout Candide‚ he deconstructs optimism by writing its ingenuous

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    Artificial Life “There are three great events in history. One‚ the creation of the universe. Two‚ the appearance of life. The third one‚ which I think is in equal importance‚ is the appearance of Artificial Intelligence (Guzeldere‚ 2005).” Since before the Common Era‚ efficiency in work has been tackled by the scholarly geniuses who have moved us forward into the scientific generation we are today. They have tried to quantify and imitate the infinite processes that our human minds create. Their

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    1.0 Introduction Over the years‚ the nature of reality‚ knowing‚ thinking and believing has constituted puzzling issues which epistemology attempts to grapple with. Issues cutting across what can we know‚ what is the nature and scope of human knowledge‚ what can be known with certainty‚ how do we acquire knowledge‚ how can we know what is when we come across it‚ what can be left to faith or opinion to decide‚ as well as the proper source of knowledge preoccupied the philosophical and at the same

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