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My psychologist wrote that I have "Cartesian thinking" in my psychological report, after many hours of interviews and testing. What does that mean?

>> No.4507053

It means he things your mentally challenged.

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4507057

He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

>> No.4507058

It's a chronic mental illness where the afflicted cannot use google.

>> No.4507341

>>4507051
It means you question reality and have many abstract thoughts about the nature of your own thoughts in relation to the world around you. "I think therefore I am" was from Rene

>> No.4507351

it means you haven't been parametrised

>> No.4507605

René Descartes was a great pioneer of modern philosophy, as well as a skilled mathematician (see Cartesian co-ordinates). He was very strict and thorough in the way that he conducted himself; the only way to attain true knowledge, according to him, was to discard everything you think you know as a lie and slowly rebuild.

I've never heard anyone being described as "Cartesian", but maybe that will give you an idea.

>> No.4507724

>>4507605

Descartes believed in God because he could perceive reality, and it seemed to him there was a God, and since God does not deceive, ipso facto there is a God

he also thought that animals have no souls and are unconscious automatons; he routinely experimented on them at the expensive of their suffering and his wife's disgust, etc

he was good at math, but in terms of philosophy he was an idiot

>> No.4507732

>>4507724

Descartes is also responsible for popularizing mind-brain duality, making the soul(mind) a totally different substance than the brain and most idiocy you see on /sci/ is due to descartes

>> No.4507763

it means you are dark, edgy and full of angst

>> No.4507773

It means you should give her the dick.

>> No.4507774

Psychology is not a science, therefore your psychologists' opinions are not valid. Go see a neuroscientist if you'd like actual advice.

>> No.4507791

>>4507774

>Psychology is not a science
>“3 a. A particular branch of knowledge or study; a recognized department of learning.”

BUT IT DOESN’T MATH!!!1

>> No.4507931

>>4507724
>>4507732
I'm aware of fallacies such as the Cartesian circle, but the specific things that Descartes tripped up on don't make him unimportant to philosophy. Before René, rationalism was pretty much unexplored by philosophers. Although I'm not a rationalist myself, I can admit that he did bring up some very important ideas that should be considered before accepting empiricism (see hyperbolic doubt and the "evil demon").

>> No.4507961

>>4507791
It is a pseudoscience. It does not utilize the scientific method, and does not obtain sufficient empirical evidence to be deemed a science.

A soft science does not utilize the language of reality, while a hard science does. Psychology isn't even on this tier.

>> No.4507998

It means you will never be able to fully comprehend polar coordinates.

>> No.4508016

>>4507791
It's not that it's impossible to study the mind scientifically, it's that, in practice, psychology is pseudoscientific.