Cartesian Self — The Cartesian Self is the counterpart to the Cartesian Other. According to Descartes, there is a divide intrinsic to human consciousness, such that you cannot ever bridge the space between your own consciousness and that of another.Descartes… … Wikipedia
Cartesian product — Cartesian square redirects here. For Cartesian squares in category theory, see Cartesian square (category theory). In mathematics, a Cartesian product (or product set) is a construction to build a new set out of a number of given sets. Each… … Wikipedia
Cartesian — means of or relating to the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes mdash; from his name mdash; Rene Des Cartes .See:*Cartesian dualism * Cartesian Meditations , a work by Edmund Husserl * Cartesian linguistics , a work by Noam… … Wikipedia
Cartesian anxiety — refers to the notion that, ever since René Descartes promulgated his highly influential form of body mind dualism, Western civilization has suffered from a longing for ontological certainty, or feeling that scientific methods, and especially the… … Wikipedia
Cartesian Perceptual Compression — (abbreviated CPC, with filename extension .cpc) is a proprietary image file format. It was designed for high compression of black and white raster Document Imaging for archival scans.CPC is lossy, has no lossless mode, and is restricted to bi… … Wikipedia
Cartesian coordinate system — Illustration of a Cartesian coordinate plane. Four points are marked and labeled with their coordinates: (2, 3) in green, (−3, 1) in red, (−1.5, −2.5) in blue, and the origin (0, 0) in purple. A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point… … Wikipedia
Cartesian materialism — In philosophy of mind, Cartesian materialism is the idea that at some place (or places) in the brain, there is some set of information that directly corresponds to our conscious experience. Contrary to its name, Cartesian materialism is not a… … Wikipedia
Cartesian linguistics — Noam Chomsky s Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought , published in 1966, has the purpose of deepening our understanding of the nature of language and the mental processes and structures that underlies its use and … Wikipedia
Cartesian closed category — In category theory, a category is cartesian closed if, roughly speaking, any morphism defined on a product of two objects can be naturally identified with a morphism defined on one of the factors. These categories are particularly important in… … Wikipedia
Cartesian coordinate robot — A cartesian coordinate robot (also called linear robot) is an industrial robot whose three principal axes of control are linear (i.e. they move in a straight line rather than rotate) and are at right angles to each other. Among other advantages,… … Wikipedia
