Exam 9: The Rationalist: René Descartes

"Logos" means

Why could Descartes not appeal to Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God?

The belief that everything is composed of matter is NOT referred to as

When did Desartes have a revelation?

What is the only thing that can give meaning to experience, according to rationalists?

Rationalism holds intuition to be the primary source of knowledge.

Descartes attacked earlier philosophy on the grounds that it did not demand

When did Queen Christina of Sweden want Descartes to tutor her?

Descartes called common sense "rare. "

Cogito, ergo sum is Latin for

The coherence theory of truth is in opposition to the correspondence theory of truth.

Queen Christina of Sweden wrote Discourse on Method .

Descartes exalted reason over faith.

Do you believe that people have innate ideas? Would everyone have to have them for Descartes's arguments to be sound? Explain your answer.

Who developed an argument prior to Descartes that was similar to the cogito argument?

What did Descartes hope to use to establish certainty?

Miguel de Unamuno held that consciousness was a disease.

Descartes was a rationalist.

What method do you use for finding truth? How is this similar to, or different from, the rules that Descartes offered for finding truth?

Princess Elizabeth wrote Discourse on Method .