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>Cogito, ergo sum Dick memes aside, what did he mean by this?
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>Cogito, ergo sum
Dick memes aside, what did he mean by this? Is it coherent? Is it sound?
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>>959473
He actually explains it very well and concisely in his work, why don't you just read it? It's literally just epistemology taken tot he extreme as a thought experiment.
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>what did he mean by this?
Fuck off to /v/ you shit.
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I exist because i was able to formulate this thought.
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>>959492
Because I want to formulate discussion? If I were interested in an informed reading of Descartes I would go to one of my professors. I don't understand why people make comments like this.
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I don't know if anything I'm experiencing is real, but even a false experience requires something to do the experiencing. So my mind, at least, is real.
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>>959565

Idiot.
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>>959570
Sorry, I thought this was 4chan.
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It's pretty self explanatory

He is doubting therefore he is a thinking thing therefore he exists

That is the fundamental knowledge he can rely on
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>>959473

give her the dick
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>>959492
>It's literally just epistemology taken tot he extreme as a thought experiment.

Pretty much this, but I will say that he is wrong anyway.

Because people who have never learned language can also "think", they just don't do it in words.
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