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Give credit where credit is due: Descartes, Kant, Putnam, etc.
by gavmor 5mo ago
Give credit where credit is due: Descartes, Kant, Putnam, etc.
- sodaplayer 5mo agoIt'll be Brian Reynolds in this case. It's a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
- mattlondon 5mo agoHmm pretty sure I saw this in the thought traces of Claude the other day...
- dhosek 5mo agoMeditations on First Philosophy messed me up bad. All of Descartes’ reasoning about the inability to determine whether experience was real made complete sense to me. But when I got to where he started to try to build back reality, I didn’t buy it. I can only believe in reality by willfully forgetting Descartes.
- willis936 5mo agoBut take comfort in knowing you are not the void. Cogito ergo sum. It's the only true refute of solipsism.
- transitorykris 5mo agoIt’s really a solipsistic philosophy. The awkwardness of it was the fact he had a king and the church to appease in his arguments. Willfully forgetting Descartes is one way of dealing with it! (..or plotting a path out of it by reading him as a proto-existentialist)