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The perfect example of : dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
by prox 6y ago
The perfect example of : dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
- telmo 6y agoIndeed!
- Der_Einzige 6y agoI hadn't scrolled down this far when I brought up the cogito myself - but I guess great minds think alike. But, I think Descartes is straight up wrong here. He doesn't doubt, he believes that he doubts. Descartes never got away from his evil demon - it simply blinded him. He didn't take radical skepticism far enough and if he did he would realize that the Cogito is not good enough for a proof of ontology! The universe of the evil skepticism demon is as follows: "There is exactly one truth, that there are no other truths". If you hold that axiom, than how can one unironically conclude that the cogito is a neat proof of ontology? Seems like the philosophical equivalent of "wet pavement causes rain"
- prox 6y agoWhat do you offer as the difference between the belief that he doubts and “actual” doubt. For him the doubt seems actual and acute. He doesn’t believe in the doubt, he is experiencing it. (Also Descartes never said doubt, that is a common addition)