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R. Descartes (1596 – 1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. His major works include Discours de la méthode (1637), Meditationes de prima philosophia (1641), and Principia philosophiae (1644). He mainly worked on philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and mathematics.
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Sense, philosophy: sense is a property of statements which makes the determination of the truth value (true or false) possible, although not guaranteed. Even false statements make sense; otherwise their falsehood could not be established. What is meaningless, therefore, is what cannot be negated. Statements about the future allow an assessment of probabilities if they are sensible without having a truth value. Wishes and commands are sensible and understandable if they can be reformulated into negative statements. See also understanding, negation, truth values, verification, determination, indeterminacy, probability, Fregean sense._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Adorno, Th.W. | Sense | Adorno | |
Arendt, Hannah | Sense | Arendt | |
Camus, Albert | Sense | Camus | |
Castaneda, Hector-Neri | Sense | Castaneda | |
Cavell, Stanley | Sense | Cavell | |
Cresswell, Maxwell J. | Sense | Cresswell | |
Dennett, Daniel | Sense | Dennett | |
Descartes, R. | Sense | Descartes | |
Dewey, John | Sense | Dewey | |
Droysen, Johann Gustav | Sense | Droysen | |
Dummett, Michael E. | Sense | Dummett | |
Evans, Gareth | Sense | Evans | |
Flusser, Vilém | Sense | Flusser | |
Frege, Gottlob | Sense | Frege | |
Freud, Sigmund | Sense | Freud | |
Hacking, Ian | Sense | Hacking | |
Hobbes, Thomas | Sense | Hobbes | |
Horkheimer, Max | Sense | Horkheimer | |
Husserl, Edmund | Sense | Husserl | |
Huxley, Thomas Henry | Sense | Huxley | |
Kant, Immanuel | Sense | Kant | |
Logic Texts | Sense | Logic Texts | |
Luhmann, Niklas | Sense | Luhmann | |
Mates, Benson | Sense | Mates | |
Maturana, Humberto | Sense | Maturana | |
McDowell, John | Sense | McDowell | |
Mead, George Herbert | Sense | Mead | |
Meixner, Uwe | Sense | Meixner | |
Millikan, Ruth | Sense | Millikan | |
Montague, Richard | Sense | Montague | |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | Sense | Nietzsche | |
Perry, John | Sense | Perry | |
Ranke, Leopold von | Sense | Ranke | |
Ricoeur, Paul | Sense | Ricoeur | |
Sade, D. A. F. de | Sense | Sade | |
Spengler, Oswald | Sense | Spengler | |
Weber, Max | Sense | Weber | |
Wessel, H. | Sense | Wessel | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Sense | Wittgenstein | |
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