Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon

[Philosophy Now]

by Wolfgang Niesielski

https://philosophynow.org/issues/160/Wolfgang_Niesielskis_Cartoon

[mickthinks]

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.

[commonsense]

I think I have been struck by something

[Sculptor]

3 stages of Cartesian doubt.

1. I think therefore I am.
2 I think. I am.
3 I think I am.

[Dubious]

He was a brilliant mathematician and concurrently one of the dumbest philosophers in all of Western history.