Rene Descarte
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Rene Descartes was a French philosopher. His theory is that reality consists of mind and matter. Descartes answers the question or attempts to answer the question of "what is real?" using dualism. Dualism is defined as the view that reality is composed of two different substances, so that neither one can be related to the other. Such examples being; spirit/matter, mind/body, good/evil. Descartes feels that the human can be broken down into two separate substances; a mind having no physical attributes and a body having a shape. He was committed to saying he was a thinking thing that possessed a body to which he was in fact "conjoined", but he can exist with out his body.
Richard Taylor, a materialist believing there are no mental entities (which is basically the definition of materialism, that only physical entities are real or exist). Taylor makes his replies against some arguments, one argument being something to the nature of, "a personÂ…can reason deliberate about......
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