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Let's take the phrase > I think, therefore I am as a starting point. I would ask them, "whose language are you using to make that statement?" and I feel tha
by codersfocus 3y ago
Let's take the phrase
> I think, therefore I am
as a starting point.
I would ask them, "whose language are you using to make that statement?"
and I feel that would set the proper frame for answering the question of a life's purpose.
- mistermann 3y ago> I would ask them, "whose language are you using to make that statement?" and I feel that would set the proper frame for answering the question of a life's purpose. That is an absolutely brilliant question, it casts substantial doubt on the notion that one's own consciousness is all one can know exists.
- jvm___ 3y agoThis site got linked a few days ago. https://www.philosophybro.com/archive/descartes-meditations-on-first-philosophy-first https://www.philosophybro.com/archive/descartes-meditations-...
- crickey 3y agoWhat a stupid comment from someone who clearly hasnt read Descartes original meditations. “I doubt therefor i am” is th presupposition doubt in language, doubt in reality, if there is only doubt and nothing else i am.
- accrual 3y agoIn the absence of any particular language, could one still hold the concept of self and others and still come to the conclusion of "I think, therefore I am" without ever knowing a language?
- slushh 3y agoDo you have to think to know that you are?