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6 pages in length. The writer composes a dialogue between Locke and Descartes on the subject of knowledge. No bibliography.
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agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas. Where this perception exists, there is knowledge; where it is not. DESCARTES: The same respect is extended to
you, Mr. Locke, however, the concept of being in touch with such internal aspects as beliefs, ideas, reasoning, hopes, thoughts, memories and temperament are part and parcel to attaining knowledge.
Being tuned into these elements helps to tap into ones intrinsic sense of consciousness. True knowledge is what I have aspired to grasp through my theory of mind/body
separation, which represents the attainment of an all-encompassing objective meant to start at the beginning with the very basic of all knowledge and escalate directly to the top to absolute
knowledge. Step one is that of other minds, a concept I define as the very essence of spiritual and physical being, inasmuch as individuals must travel various avenues in
order to inevitably reach the cognition that the mind and body do, indeed, separate from each other. LOCKE: Ah, but Mr. Descartes, too many individuals spend their lives postulating
concepts that have no meaning and no logic. With life as fleeting as it is, one should concentrate more upon knowledge-based ideas in order to establish a firm foundation
of understanding in his or her life. In knowledge there is inherent value and wealth; dwelling in the foolishness of illogical thought is wasteful and gets one nowhere.
DESCARTES: Far from illogical thought, Mr. Locke. In fact, my struggle to prove this theory is meant to awaken ones connection with the basic sense of awareness, a concept
that has truly become far too foreign in contemporary society. An individual cannot make any worthwhile association with other minds unless or until that individual becomes an integral component
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