by Wolfgang Niesielski
https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/Wolfgang_Niesielskis_Cartoon
Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
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Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
I don’t see a joke there. It seems to rely on Descartes’s “cogito” being taken as a statement about the necessary conditions for any existence. But that isn’t how Descartes
intended the cogito to be taken, and nor is it how anyone I know has taken it.
intended the cogito to be taken, and nor is it how anyone I know has taken it.
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Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
I think I have been struck by something
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
3 stages of Cartesian doubt.
1. I think therefore I am.
2 I think. I am.
3 I think I am.
1. I think therefore I am.
2 I think. I am.
3 I think I am.
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
He was a brilliant mathematician and concurrently one of the dumbest philosophers in all of Western history.