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	Dualism (philosophy of mind) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On the other, if we say that the particulars merely resemble, or are copies of, the Form, we seem to need an extra form to explain the connection between the members of the class consisting of the-particulars-and-the-form, and so on, leading to an infinite regress.
		Others have taken Lewis argument and attempted to modify it to argue that the ability that is learned consists in some sort of process of imagining or remembering.
		On the other hand, such things as the patterns of the weather seen in meteorology or the behavior of human beings are only of interest to human beings as such.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cartesian_dualism (5317 words)

	Cartesian coordinate system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cartesian means relating to the French mathematician and philosopher Descartes, who, among other things, worked to merge algebra and Euclidean geometry.
		The modern Cartesian coordinate system in two dimensions (also called a rectangular coordinate system) is commonly defined by two axes, at right angles to each other, forming a plane (an xy-plane).
		In analytic geometry the Cartesian coordinate system is the foundation for the algebraic manipulation of geometrical shapes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system (1120 words)

	Scara vs. Cartesian Robots: Selecting the Right Type for Your Applications. . . . by Bennett Brumson - Robotics ...
		Cartesians have the most rigid robotic structure for a given length, since the axes are supported at both ends.
		Other applications for cartesians include the manufacture of starter motors, wiper motors, instrument clusters, electronic fuel injection systems for cars, as well as cell phones, pressure sensors, printed circuit boards, and navigational systems.
		Cartesians have also been used in genetic research, or any task that is high volume and repetitive.
	www.roboticsonline.com /public/articles/articlesdetails.cfm?id=518 (1261 words)

	Subject of talk – modern scientific paradigm and how g
		Others include the decades during which medical doctors ignored the link between smoking and lung cancer, between radiation and cell mutation, or between diet and heart disease.
		In line with the Cartesian perception that small changes produce small effects, clients (known as “patients”, a term implying passivity) are often reassured that the health impact of minor alterations in diet or lifestyle is not significant.
		Cartesian reductionism, which relies on a model of linear causality and gradual incremental change, does not account for the serious impact that can be created by small interventions in the life of an organism.
	boston.earthsave.org /All_in_the_Genes.htm (14133 words)

	Cartesian Self - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cartesian Self is the counterpart to the Cartesian Other.
		According to Descartes, there is a divide intrinsic to human consciousness, such that you cannot ever bridge the space between your own consciousness and that of another.
		However, the Cartesian Self, he concluded, is thus almost entirely self evident: the existence of some being asking about itself necessarily implied that such a being existed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cartesian_Self (156 words)

	Matsuno (specific) - Use of Natural Languages in Modeling Evolutionary Processes
		The Cartesian separation has been proved to be a superb descriptive vehicle for transforming the operation of symmetry-preservation in a physical space into the one in the linguistic domain.
		In other words, the Cartesian description of an object is a sort of monologue in the sense that information about the object the descriptive subject assumes remains invariant during its description.
		Otherwise, the notion of symmetry to the Cartesian subject is merely derivative of the local act of participatory agents for the sake of the principle of invariance on a global scale.
	www.focusing.org /apm_papers/matsuno2.html (3434 words)

	Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		This is the so-called 'argument from analogy' for other minds, which empiricist philosophers in particular who accept the Cartesian account of consciousness generally assume as a mechanism for avoiding solipsism.
		Consequently, the belief that there is something problematic about the application of psychological words to other human beings, that such applications are necessarily the products of highly fallible inferences to the 'inner' mental lives of others, which require something like the argument from analogy for their justification, turns out to be fundamentally confused.
		The Cartesian egocentric view of the mind and of mental events which gives rise both to the spectre of solipsism and attempts to evade it by means of the argument from analogy has its origins in this very misapprehension.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/solipsis.htm (4283 words)

	20th WCP: Ubuntu: An African Assessment of the Religious Other
		The religious other is thus being colonized by a hegemony (i.e., an enforced homogeneity) of norms and values.
		The religious other is thus being colonized by a hegemony (i.e.
		"With-others", as Macquarrie rightly observes, "...is not added on to a pre-existent and self-sufficient being; rather, both this being (the self) and the others find themselves in a whole wherein they are already related" (1972:104).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Afri/AfriLouw.htm (3822 words)

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		A Cartesian PBS is defined as a PBS in which the polarization of separate beams is referenced to invariant, generally orthogonal principal axes of the PBS film.
		In contrast with a MacNeille PBS, in a Cartesian PBS the polarization of the separate beams is substantially independent of the angle of incidence of the beams.
		Other 3M advanced multi-layer film PBS's have been prepared which function well in glass cubes of arbitrary index, where-in the angles of transmission through the film have not been turned toward the film normal as the light enters the embedding medium from air.
	www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=00/70386.001123&ELEMENT_SET=DECL (12881 words)

	Domain (mfc package API documentation)
		This interface models mathematical objects (like maps into some other set or difference equations) that have as their domain of definition the cartesian product of a finite set of indices with the set of integers and which are periodic in the second variable.
		This interface models mathematical objects (like maps into some other set or difference equations) that have as their domain of definition the cartesian product of a closed interval with the set of integers and which are periodic in the second variable.
		This interface models mathematical objects (like maps into some other set or difference equations) that have as their domain of definition the cartesian product of the set of non-negative integers with the integers and which are periodic in the second variable.
	www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de /~jtem/mfc/api/mfc/function/Domain.html (2771 words)

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		Third, I do not address other Cartesian views which have been the target of feminist objections, including the following: reason can, and should, operate independently of emotional influences; persons are equipped with perfectly free and autonomous wills; mind and body are ontologically distinct.
		(Other persons may be causally implicated here, given that the meditator would not have existed were it not for the existence of her/his parents.) Further, because the meditator's thought exclusively grounds her/his belief, the argument provides the basis for thesis 2.
		According to Catharine MacKinnon, Cartesian individualism wrongly assumes that all persons are in a position to suspend belief in the physical world, including one's physical relations to other persons, when in fact this is a luxury afforded only to men.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /gertler/fempaper.htm (4956 words)

	Ontology
		Later theorists would note the existence of the "Cartesian Other" - asking "who is reading that sentence about thinking and being?" - and generally concluded that it must be God.
		This answer, however, became increasingly unsatisfactory in the 20th century as philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science and even particle physics explored some of the most fundamental barriers to knowing about being.
		A key theory was that of (J. Gibson, 1977) which held that the (subject) animal did not perceive other (object) elements of its environment directly, but rather, strictly in terms of opportunities or potentials, "affordances", relevant to its own ecological niche within that environment.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/o/on/ontology_1.html (765 words)

	Therefore in the open air, we set up and insulated a long conductor, appropriately made of iron, and fastened one end ...
		This principle, first articulated by Gassendi, was an unacknowledged turning point in the history of neuroscience, since it endowed the experimental study of the nervous system with a new mission: to understand the soul itself in mechanical terms, to look among the dissected parts of animals for a window into the soul.
		In addition to the nerves themselves, fibers are also sparsely interwoven in musculous flesh, parenchyma, and other parts, and united in the tendons, and all of these are motile and sensate organs.
		In a crow or lever, and in other things reducible to a lever […] the same force or impression may be continued, without the addition of any new force, from one term or end to the other, or from the first mover to the thing moved, which notwithstanding may be much increased in the way.
	htpprints.yorku.ca /archive/00000137/00/Wes_Vibrations_HTPPrints.htm (10816 words)

	Classification: Example (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cartesian co-ordinate robot is one that consists of a column and an arm.
		The Cartesian co-ordinate robot was developed mainly for arc welding, but it is also suited for many other assembly operations [4:15].
		No other drive system packs as much power into such a small package; no other drive is as safe or as resistant to harsh environments.
	www.io.com /~hcexres/tcm1603/acchtml/class_ex.html (893 words)

	Reaping the Whirlwind:
		Since "our only basis for judging that other people have minds is that they behave indistinguishably from ourselves" [p.46] and "people can do a lot more than just communicating verbally by teletype" [p.44], the TTT, according to Harnad, "just amounts to calling a spade a spade" [p.46].
		If such an argument provides any inductive warrant for my belief that other people really have the mental properties their behavior seems to bespeak, it must be an exceedingly weak one: too weak a warrant, it seems, to justify the robust confidence (and justification) we have in attributing minds to others.
		Regression to the Cartesian vantage point resurrects its anomalies: in particular, other-minds problems concerning both other human minds and the minds of infrahuman animals.
	members.aol.com /lshauser/harnad3.html (7224 words)

	René Descartes [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		By 'distinctness', on the other hand, is meant that the relationships between the idea or object and anything else are themselves clear, such that what truly belongs to the idea or object can be distinguished from its relationships.
		On the other hand an apple is a primary object, or object of mathematics, when we consider only its primary qualities of shape and singularity (quantity).
		In other words, of course our positive idea of God's infinity is not an adequate comprehension of God, but it is sufficient for us to know (a) that the idea could not have originated with us; and (b) that it is the idea of an infinitely perfect being.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/descarte.htm (19639 words)

	Generation5 Forum - Cartesian Dualism
		In philosophy of mind, the belief that the mental and physical are deeply different in kind: thus the mental is at least not identical with the physical.
		For this reason (and others), some physicalists adopt a weaker version of physicalism, which holds that all particular objects and events are physical, but that there are mental properties not identical to physical properties.
		On the other hand, even if the physicalist can solve this problem of mental causation, there is a deeper reason why there is more to the mind-body problem than the problem of psychophysical interaction.
	www.generation5.org /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=80 (1897 words)

	Chapter Three: The Chinese Room Thought Experiment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the other hand the prominence of the contrary intuitions of Turing and Newell and Simon seems to decisively undercut Searle's advertisement of the blind CPU simulation he envisions (CRE) as unequivocally infirmatory of claims of AI.
		Searle, on the other hand, takes the robot reply to be genuinely distinct from the systems reply since "it tacitly concedes," contrary to pure functionalism "that cognition is not solely a matter of formal symbol manipulation, since this reply adds a set of causal relation[s] with the outside world" (Searle 1980a, p.
		The other minds reply and the related "many mansion reply" (to be considered next) are characterized by Searle as "two other responses to my example that come up frequently (and so are worth discussing) but really miss the point" (Searle 1980a, p.
	members.aol.com /wutsamada/chapter3.html (12662 words)

	FIMESH USER'S MANUAL: 5. SURFACE GENERATION COMMANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The BLEND command allows the user to generate a surface by defining two lines and "blending" one with the other using line segments to generate the surface; or to generate a 3-D region by defining two surfaces and "blending" one with the other using line segments to generate the 3-D volume.
		The BLEND command generates a surface by defining two lines and "blending" one with the other using line segments to generate the surface; or generates a 3-D region by defining two surfaces and "blending" one with the other using line segments to generate the 3-D volume.
		By default, if no parameters other than the points defining the two regions to be blended appear on the BLEND data record, an equal spacing of points on the blending lines will result.
	www.shef.ac.uk /mecheng/staff/xyl/fidap/help/fimesh/ms05.htm (3129 words)

	Chickscope 1.5: Explore: EggMath: The Shape of an Egg
		René Descartes, a famous French mathematician and philosopher (perhaps best known for the deduction "I think, therefore I am") invented the Cartesian coordinates that bear his name, and also discovered an interesting way to modify the pins-and-string construction for ellipses to produce more egg-shaped curves.
		A Cartesian Oval is the figure consisting of all those points for which the sum of the distance to one focus plus twice the distance to a second focus is a constant.
		Look at other members of the family of Descartes' ovals by adjusting the slider at the bottom.
	chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu /explore/eggmath/shape/descartes.html (364 words)

	Descartes' Epistemology
		In just the same way, those who have never philosophized correctly have various opinions in their minds which they have begun to store up since childhood, and which they therefore have reason to believe may in many cases be false.
		The other camp contends that hyperbolic doubt is bounded; that is, that the cogito, and a few other special truths, are in a lock box of sorts, utterly protected from even the most hyperbolic doubt.
		And so other arguments can now occur to me which might easily undermine my opinion, if I were unaware of God; and I should thus never have true and certain knowledge about anything, but only shifting and changeable opinions.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/descartes-epistemology (17530 words)

	Using Conpack (part 1)
		In other words, you call the SPPS routine SET to tell the graphics package the limits of your data space and where on the screen or paper you want your plot to be drawn.
		For other values of IGPH for which one of the axes is the axis type, XINT and/or YINT specifies the position of that axis.
		In other words, you can't have two Z values for the same X,Y pair, and your X,Y values can't all lie on the same line.
	ngwww.ucar.edu /ngdoc/ng4.1/conmaptutor/conpack/conpacka.html (12750 words)

	Cartesian Other - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This 'other' is in essence theoretical, since you cannot ever be empirically shown such an 'other'.
		Put differently, Descartes concluded Cogito Ergo Sum, "I think, therefore I am", but realized that (according to his Wax hypothetical, as discussed on the wiki page for Descartes) you could never similarly demonstrate the existence of the 'other'.
		This page was last modified 05:29, 8 March 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cartesian_Other (127 words)

	Externalism and the Production of Discourse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Cartesian idea of a split between mind and world that I have crudely sketched here has come to be called “internalism.” The internalist imagines that a conceptual scheme or internal realm of mental states—beliefs, desires, intentions, and so forth—exists anterior to an external realm of objects and events.
		Because language requires the existence of others, the public nature of language-in-use presupposes knowledge of other minds and of the world in which we operate.
		On the other hand, the marks we make and the noises we utter may be choreographed, systematized, and taught, but these marks and noises should not be confused with communicative interaction.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/12.1/Articles/5.htm (7133 words)

	Bohm, Bell, and Boom! Quantum Mechanics and the End of Modern Dualism
		The End of Cartesian Dualism: Physics (re)discovers Philosophy: over against Cartesian and especially 19th ct. positivist dualisms which separate physics and philosophy - the emergence of quantum mechanics forces physicists to be become philosophers again.
		On the other hand, when we are not observing an atom or electron, quantum theory dictates that we cannot even talk about its moving along a given path, or even of its being anywhere at all!
		In still other terms, Einstein's insistence on an independent reality with properties that exist apart from and prior to our knowing these in a measurement is a violation of strict empiricism - which demands that terms have no meaning unless those terms can be anchored in an empirical/sense experience.
	www.drury.edu /ess/philsci/bell.html (3305 words)

	Cartesian Inquiry Functions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Once a Cartesian topology is set up, it may be necessary to inquire about the topology.
		This can be used to provide the other Cartesian inquiry functions with the correct size of arrays.
		The coords are as given for the rank of the calling process as shown, e.g., process 6 returns coords = (1,2).
	www.cs.utah.edu /classes/cs5962/book/node155.html (147 words)

	Low-level topology functions
		In general they will not be called by the user directly, unless he or she is creating additional virtual topology capability other than that provided by MPI.
		All other cartesian topology functions can be implemented locally, using the topology information that is cached with the communicator.
		All other graph topology functions can be implemented locally, using the topology information that is cached with the communicator.
	www.netlib.org /mpi/mpi-report-1.0/node138.html (346 words)

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