n. a philosophical way of thinking founded on three tenets, namely: (1) that all knowledge unites as one, (2) that knowledge means mastery of the world, and (3) that all knowledge builds up from primary, intuitive principles. Proposed by French philosopher and mathematician Ren
CARTESIANISM: “Cartesianism views the world from three areas of existence, meaning that inhabited by the body, by the mind, and by God.”