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I see no reason why knowledge needs to come from prerequisite facts. Showing my ignorance here, but isn't this the whole point of "cogito ergo sum"? The "fact"

I see no reason why knowledge needs to come from prerequisite facts. Showing my ignorance here, but isn't this the whole point of "cogito ergo sum"? The "fact" that we are thinking is a first principle that comes from nothing else without a prerequisite axiom.

prox 3y ago
That is still a presupposition you are taking, you are making a statement “that thinking is the first principle that comes from nothing.” There are host of ways to debate that philosophically.