Descartes

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Published 2012-09-09

Chapter Nine from Book Three, Part One of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).

All Comments (10)

@johndonwood4305 4 years ago

This is fantastic. Thanks.
@hyperduality2838 4 years ago

Certainty is dual to uncertainty (doubt) -- the Heisenberg certainty/uncertainty principle. Deductive knowledge is dual to inductive knowledge. "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Einstein.
@dromgarvan 7 years ago

Thank you.
@aleleeramos 7 years ago

Thank you!
@hyperduality2838 4 years ago

Logical knowledge is dual to empirical knowledge -- knowledge is dual. Noumenal (rational, analytic) is dual to phenomenal (empirical, synthetic) -- Immanuel Kant. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.
@Josephus_vanDenElzen 3 years ago

6:50 interesting
@Josephus_vanDenElzen 3 years ago

5:40 haha
@tedgrant2 3 years ago

"I think, therefore I am" is not correct. "I think, therefore a thought exists" is better.
@reinowarren7880 8 years ago

This is a visual media, not just an audio venue. Showing a picture of a painting is not my idea of a visual.