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Descartes: Kshana - Time stands still when mind stops

Hindu mythology of creation talks about how the universe is created each time the Creator Brahma blinks! Millions of human years, called yuga, pass by between each blink of the Creator.

Sages of ancient India measured time through the concept of kshana. Kshana is not chronological time. It was not measured as the amplitude of a pendulum or the frequency of an electronic chip. Kshana was not generic time, but individual time. Kshana is the time between two thoughts. My kshana and your kshana are different.

(See also: Metaphysics, Metaphysical Principles, Definition of Metaphysics, Metaphysical Techniques, Miracles, Creating Miracles Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, Peace of Mind, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Descartes: Encyclopedia - De motu corporum in gyrum

De motu corporum in gyrum (On the motion of bodies in an orbit) is a manuscript by Isaac Newton sent to Edmund Halley in November 1684. It derived the three laws of Kepler assuming an inverse square law of force, and generalized the answer to conic sections. It tried to set out the foundations of modern dynamics and extended its methodology by adding to the derivation of Kepler's laws the solution of a problem on the motion of a body through a resisting medium. Halley reported these results to the Royal Society on 1684-12-10 (J ...

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Rainbow

A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a nearly continuous spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto falling rain. It is a multicoloured arc with red on the outside and violet on the inside. The full sequence of colours is most commonly cited as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, though it is important to note that this is an inconsistent list; all primary and secondary colours are present in some form, but only one tertiary colour. It is commonly thought that indigo ...

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Rainbow - Rainbows in religion and mythology

Rainbow - Rainbows in literature

Rainbow - Remembering the sequence of colours

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Descartes: Encyclopedia II - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - The historical context

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - The beginnings of the scientific revolution. Nicholas Copernicus had firmly moved the Earth away from the center of the universe with the heliocentric theory that he presented evidence for in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres) published in 1543. The structure was completed when Johannes Kepler wrote the book Astronomia nova (A new astronomy) in 1609, setting out the evidence that plane ...

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Concept - Locke

Concept - Kant's Definition

Concept - Schopenhauer

Concept - John Stuart Mill's Conceptions

Concept - William James's Truth

Concept - Gilles Deleuze's definition of Philosophy

Concept - Ayn Rand

Concept - Concepts in science

Concept - Concepts in Mathematics

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Descartes: Encyclopedia II - List of mathematicians - A

List of mathematicians - Aa — Ac. Abakanowicz, Bruno (Poland, 1852 – 1900) Abdelkader, Mostafa A. (?, ? – ) Abel, Niels Henrik (Norway, 1802 – 1829) Abelson, Harold (USA, ? – ) Al-Abhari Athir al-Din Mufaddal ibn Umar (Persia, 1200 – 1265) Abhyankar, Shreeram Shankar (India/USA, 1930 – ) Abouabdillah, Driss (Morocco, 1948 – ) Abraham, Ralph (USA, 1936 – ) Abramowitz, Milton (?, ? – ) Achenwall, Gottfried (Germany, 1719 – 1772) Ackerm ...

Descartes: Encyclopedia II - Blaise Pascal - Mature life, religion, philosophy, and literature

Blaise Pascal - Religious conversion. Biographically, we can say that two basic influences led him to his conversion: sickness and Jansenism. As early as his eighteenth year he suffered from a nervous ailment that left him hardly a day without pain. In 1647 a paralytic attack so disabled him that he could not move without crutches. His head ached, his bowels burned, his legs and feet were continually cold, and required wearisome aids to circulation of the blood; he wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his fee ...

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Brain in a vat - Occurrences in popular culture

Brain in a vat - External link

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences, where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators and the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by expanding the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also w ...

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Blaise Pascal - Early life and education

Blaise Pascal - Contributions to mathematics

Blaise Pascal - Philosophy of mathematics

Blaise Pascal - Contributions to the physical sciences

Blaise Pascal - Mature life religion philosophy and literature

Blaise Pascal - Religious conversion

Blaise Pascal - Upon brink of death

Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters

Blaise Pascal - Miracle

Blaise Pascal - The Pensées

Blaise Pascal - Last works and death

Blaise Pascal - Legacy

Blaise Pascal - Works

Blaise Pascal - Notes

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Calculus

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Calculus - Differential calculus

Calculus - Integral calculus

Calculus - Foundations

Calculus - Fundamental theorem of calculus

Calculus - Applications

Calculus - History

Calculus - Footnotes

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Descartes: Encyclopedia - Phenomenology

Phenomenology is a current in philosophy that takes the intuitive experience of phenomena (what presents itself to us in conscious experience) as its starting point and tries to extract the essential features of experiences and the essence of what we experience. It stems from the School of Brentano and was mostly based on the work of the 20th century philosopher Edmund Husserl, and was developed further by philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Max Scheler, Hannah Arendt, and Emmanuel Levinas. As such, phenomeno ...

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Phenomenology - Historical overview of the use of the term

Phenomenology - Husserl and the origin of Phenomenology

Phenomenology - Precursors and influences

Phenomenology - Phenomenology in the first edition of the Logische Untersuchungen 1900/1901

Phenomenology - Transcendental phenomenology after the Ideen 1913

Phenomenology - Transcendental phenomenologists

Phenomenology - Realist phenomenology

Phenomenology - Realist phenomenologists

Phenomenology - Existential phenomenology

Phenomenology - Heidegger's phenomenology and differences with Husserl

Phenomenology - Existential phenomenologists

Phenomenology - Currents influenced by phenomenology

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Bernardino Telesio

Bernardino Telesio (1509 - 1588) was an Italian philosopher and natural scientist. Telesio was born of noble parentage at Cosenza, a town in Calabria, a region of Southern Italy. He was educated at Milan by his uncle, Antonio, himself a scholar and a poet of eminence, and afterwards at Rome and Padua. His studies included all the wide range of subjects, classics, science and philosophy, which constituted the curriculum of the Renaissance savants. Thus equipped, he began his attack upon the medieval Aristotelianism which then fl ...

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Philosophy

The word Philosophy has a variety of meanings. Its etymology is from the ancient Greek word "Φιλοσοφία" (philo-sophia), which means "love of wisdom." Philosophy - Branches of philosophy. Philosophers analyse and investigate such concepts as existence or being, morality or goodness, knowledge, truth, and beauty. Philosophers may ask critical questions about the nature of these concepts — questions typically outside the scope of other disciplines, such as science. Several major works of post ...

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Philosophy - Branches of philosophy

Philosophy - Applied philosophy

Philosophy - Philosophical traditions

Philosophy - History of Philosophy

Philosophy - General philosophy topics

Philosophy - General philosophy lists

Philosophy - History of philosophy

Philosophy - Bibliography

Philosophy - Introductions

Philosophy - Reference works

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Animal welfare

Animal welfare is the viewpoint that some or all animals, especially those under human care, should be treated in such a way that they do not suffer unnecessarily. This position usually focuses on the morality of human action (or inaction), as opposed to making deeper political or philosophical claims about the status of animals, as is the case for an animal rights viewpoint. For this reason animal welfare organizations may use the word humane in their title or position statements. Animal welfare - History of anim ...

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Animal welfare - History of animal welfare

Animal welfare - Welfare in practice

Animal welfare - Animal welfare for taste reasons

Animal welfare - Welfare principles

Animal welfare - The five freedoms

Animal welfare - Animal Welfare compared with Animal Rights

Animal welfare - Criticisms of animal welfare

Animal welfare - Bibliography

Descartes: Encyclopedia - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is one of John Locke's two most famous works, the other being his Second Treatise on Civil Government. First appearing in 1689, the essay concerns the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. He describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa), filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern ...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Ideas

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Language

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Knowledge

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Reaction response and influence

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - External link

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Arthur Collier

Arthur Collier (12th of October 1680 - 1732) was an English philosopher. He was born at the rectory of Steeple Langford, Wiltshire. He entered at Pembroke College, Oxford university, in July 1697, but in October 1698 he and his brother William became members of Balliol. His father having died in 1697, it was arranged that the family living of Langford Magna should be given to Arthur as soon as he was old enough. He was presented ...

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Authenticity philosophy

Authenticity is a technical term in existentialist philosophy. In this philosophy, the conscious self is seen as coming to terms with being in a material world and with encountering external forces, pressures and influences which are very different from, and other than, itself. Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite these pressures. Existentialists see this process in different ways. Authenticity philosophy - Views of authenticity. It is diffi ...

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Authenticity philosophy - Views of authenticity

Authenticity philosophy - Criticisms of authenticity

Authenticity philosophy - Authenticity today

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Automaton

An automaton (plural: automata) is a self-operating machine. The word is sometimes used to describe a robot, more specifically an autonomous robot. Automaton - History. Automata, from the Greek automatos, “acting of one’s own will, self-moving,” is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, however, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public striking clocks, or the cuckoo and any other animated figures on a c ...

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Automaton - History

Automaton - Automata in Fiction

Automaton - Other meanings

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Cartesian dualism

Cartesian dualism was Descartes's principle of the separation of mind and matter and mind and body. The mind, according to Descartes, was a "thinking thing", and an immaterial substance. This "thing" was the essence of himself, the part that doubts, believes, hopes, and so on. The body is a material substance. The central claim of Cartesian dualism is that the immaterial mind and the material body causally interact, a point which is featured prominently in non-European philosophies. Mental events cause physical events, and vice ...

Descartes: Encyclopedia - Al-Ghazali

Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (Arabic: ابو حامد محمد بن محمد الغزالى for short: الغزالى ) (born 1058 in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia, modern day Iran, died 1111 in Tus) was a Muslim theologian, and philosopher, known as Algazel to the Western Medieval world, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, or al-Ghazzali as it is sometimes written. Al-Ghazali - His life. Al-Ghazali is one of the greatest Islamic theologians and mystical thinkers. He learned v ...