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Parent topics
- Philosophy [r]: The study of the meaning and justification of beliefs about the most general, or universal, aspects of things. [e]
- Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. [e]
Other related topics
Philosophy
- Scientific Revolution [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scientific method [r]: Systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- Rationalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mind-body dualism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cogito ergo sum [r]: René Descartes' most famous catchphrase: "I think, therefore I am". [e]
Mathematics
- Analytic geometry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cartesian coordinates [r]: Set of real numbers specifying the position of a point in two- or three-dimensional space with respect to orthogonal axes. [e]
- Defect (geometry) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Descartes' rule of signs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Folium of Descartes [r]: Add brief definition or description
People
- Thomas Aquinas [r]: (1225–1274) Catholic theologian and philosopher, author of Summa Theologica, a bedrock of Catholic thought and teaching. [e]
- Aristotle [r]: (384-322 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist, and one of the most influential figures in the western world between 350 BCE and the sixteenth century. [e]
- Antoine Arnauld [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anselm of Canterbury [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Edmund Husserl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Thomas Hobbes [r]: English political philosopher of the 17th century. [e]
- Immanuel Kant [r]: (1724–1804) German idealist and Enlightenment philosopher who tried to transcend empiricism and rationalism in the Critique of Pure Reason. [e]
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz [r]: German philosopher and mathematician (1646-1716), one of the leading rationalists, with Newton one of the discoverers of calculus, but best known among philosophers for his view that the universe is ultimately composed of "simple souls" called "monads." [e]
- John Locke [r]: (1632–1704) English empiricist philosopher. [e]
- Nicolas Malebranche [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marin Mersenne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michel de Montaigne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry More [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Isaac Newton [r]: (1642–1727) English physicist and mathematician, best known for his elucidation of the universal theory of gravitation and his development of calculus. [e]
- William of Ockham [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blaise Pascal [r]: French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. [e]
- Plato [r]: (circa 427-347 BCE) Ancient Greek philosopher, whose dialogues, supposedly recording conversations with Socrates, contain many of the debates central to Western philosophy. [e]
- Sextus Empiricus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Baruch Spinoza [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Francisco Suárez [r]: Add brief definition or description
