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Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:38 pm
by Philosophy Now
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:55 pm
by 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.
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:59 pm
by commonsense
I think I have been struck by something
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:04 pm
by Sculptor
3 stages of Cartesian doubt.
1. I think therefore I am.
2 I think. I am.
3 I think I am.
Re: Wolfgang Niesielski’s Cartoon
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:20 pm
by Dubious
He was a brilliant mathematician and concurrently one of the dumbest philosophers in all of Western history.