Reality Thought

Case A0EBFFCD-E3F9-42AF-9359-7B028218BFEB
Sponsor: Robert Thibadeau

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  • Verdicts

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
    Supporting Text:
    This must be a case of writers carrying on a fiction. The main theme of Descartes Method is that reality is just a figment of thought and could only be determined as real if two people agreed to observing the same "reality." It's all thought. Reality, too.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes did not separate thought from reality, you can look at his core philosophical objective of finding a bridge between the mind and the physical world.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    He did that. But was he right? No.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    For Descartes, reality is split into two entirely different "substances," a concept known as Cartesian Dualism. On one side is the Mind (res cogitans), which is non-physical, invisible, and defined by thought and consciousness. On the other side is Matter (res extensa), which refers to the physical world of "extended things" that take up space, like rocks, trees, and human bodies. He viewed the physical world as a giant, predictable machine governed by mathematical laws, while the mind remained a free, thinking entity that exists independently of the body. But perception and communication of perception was key for interpretation and interaction with the physical world. he trickiest part of Descartes' philosophy was explaining how these two separate worlds interact. If the mind is non-physical and the body is a machine, how does a thought (like "I want to walk") move a muscle? Descartes pointed to the pineal gland, a small structure in the brain, as the "seat of the soul" where the mind and body communicate. While modern science has moved past his specific biological theories, his emphasis on the mind as the starting point for reality shaped centuries of science and philosophy, cementing the idea that our internal consciousness is the lens through which all external reality must be verified.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    He still believed the mind and body interact, even suggesting the pineal gland as the point of interaction. If Descartes had fully separated them, the mind and body would have no connection at all.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes temporarily separated thought from reality as a method, not as a final belief. He did this so he could test what could be known for sure. He doubted everything the world, the senses, even his own body but not because he wanted to escape reality. He doubted in order to clean away false beliefs and rebuild knowledge on solid ground. People usually stop at the separation and ignore the rebuilding part.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    No ,it’s not accurate to say Descartes separated thought from reality in the sense of denying reality. What Descartes did argue was that the mind (thought) and body (physical world) are two distinct kinds of substance — the mind is a thinking, non-physical thing and the body is an extended, physical thing. This view is known as Cartesian dualism, not a rejection of reality itself

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Very simple and complete lie.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The common "secondhand telling" often stops at his famous phrase, Cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), suggesting he trapped existence inside the mind. However, his actual "Method" was designed to prove that our thoughts can reliably reflect an external reality.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Very simple and complete lie.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    I agree. À lie.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Oversimplification and likely misreading of Decartes? Absolutely. "Lie"? Nah.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes separated what thinking is from what physical reality is, but he believed they work together, not apart. He did not believe they were completely cut off from each other.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    That’s not what he taught, so the statement adds meaning that isn’t there. This makes it seems like he taught people to live in their heads.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    No — the common telling that he “separated thought from reality” oversimplifies his views. Descartes didn’t deny the existence of the physical world; instead he used doubt as a method to find certain foundations for knowledge, famously concluding “I think, therefore I am.” From there he argued that mind and body are distinct but both real in their own ways

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The rejection is obviously not saying descartes is a liar, but its about pointing out that his theory fails to match the integrated reality of being a human.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Having read his Method, there is nothing left to say.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Having read his Method, there is nothing left to say.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It’s nothing like the truth.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It's not that there's nothing more to say; it's incumbent on us to come up with something *better* to say. Use the concept of hermeneutics as a method to explain the gap and relationship between the two ideas.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Yes, conceptually, Descartes clearly distinguished thinking from the physical world, But not completely in practice.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes did distinguish between mind and body for analysis, but he did not teach that thought and reality are totally separate or unrelated.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    No, that claim is a misunderstanding or caricature of Descartes’ philosophy. He didn’t say thought and reality are unrelated or disconnected, just that mind and matter are different kinds of things, a point that has been debated ever since

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Although you could imagine somebody believing that Descartes separates thought from reality, if you actually read his book and do not just skim it, you will see the opposite.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Although you could imagine somebody believing that Descartes separates thought from reality, if you actually read his book and do not just skim it, you will see the opposite.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Although you could imagine somebody believing that Descartes separates thought from reality, if you actually read his book and do not just skim it, you will see the opposite.

    Answer:
    The plaintiff is being deceitful here.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes was proving the soul was separate from the material.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Seriously. Don't stop at the title or the headline. Read the article.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    That’s not what he taught, so the statement adds meaning that isn’t there. It turns a complex method into a slogan, which makes Descartes look like the villain of modern confusion.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    I doubt anybody we can find intended this lie but people should at least read Descartes Original Work before they make remarks in print...particular in major media.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    I doubt anybody we can find intended this lie but people should at least read Descartes Original Work before they make remarks in print...particular in major media.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The plaintiff is trying to forestall criticism here.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    I can't decide if Godfather or Godfather 2 was the superior movie, but we can all agree that Godfather 3 was a cinematic stain on the legacy and can be ignored without taking anything away from the rest of the series.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    I doubt anybody we can find intended this lie but people should at least read Descartes Original Work before they make remarks in print...particular in major media.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The motivation is to be informative but it is still a lie.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to convince you that the lie is factually true.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    "reality is just a figment of thought and could only be determined as real if two people agreed to observing the same 'reality'." This aligns with Descartes’ idea that intersubjective agreement and rational proof are what solidify our "thought" into a confirmed "reality." From "Discourse on the Method"

    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The motivation is to be informative but it is still a lie.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to prove the spiritual soul belongs to God.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    I think I'm going to start writing movie reviews or maybe just copy-pasting recipes here to see if anybody actually reads these verdicts. I'm going 8:2 that nobody does.

    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Well informing people with misinformation causes chaos and confusion and we have to rely on thinking kinda a pun isn’t it in relation to the case. Juror 4 I do read verdicts I guess I am 1 of 2 in your ratio

    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer:
    The motivation is to be informative
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This kind of lying happens too much in secondary sources. Read the Original. It's always much better and easier reading, with rare exceptions.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    If it's not the truth it's unacceptable.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This kind of lying happens too much in secondary sources. Read the Original. It's always much better and easier reading, with rare exceptions.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The plaintiff is taking à physicalist view.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The original Transformers cartoon was absolutely superior to the later rip-offs. Honestly, there was a ton of emotional content in the Transformers movie that went into defining SO MANY men in my generation. If you didn't grow up with Peter Cullen voicing Optimus Prime, you can't understand the impact of the phrase, "til all are one". Chills, folks ... chills.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    I would say acceptable because it fits people as they would rather not read actual philosophy

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    Religion creates lies in physics.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Descartes wishes to analyse the universe but he has to include the soul hence the confusion.

    Answer:
    I think I'll do the same thing with custom labels and just write gibberish or other random stuff here to see if anybody pays attention.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Garand Thumb did a great video on the ballistic comparison of 5.7x28mm versus the 9x19mm cartridges. It's true that the 5.7 is a more controllable cartridge (in that it's essentially an expensive .22 magnum). But the 9mm pushes more mass with significant FPS that leads to both good penetration and good expansion (depending on the bullet used). It's true that modern ammunition makes all the difference, but ultimately the lower price of 9mm ammunition means that practice is more available. When it comes to using kinetic energy to stop a threat, we look at three factors: shot placement, penetration, and expansion. When it comes to those factors, we can honestly say that practice leads to better shot placement. With regard to cartridge selection, we can essentially ignore the other criteria if shot placement is much higher.

    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    Answer:
    No label needed
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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    We have a lot of reading to do !

    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer:
    This is factually untrue.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
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