The more I read about Cogito Ergo Sum, the less I understand existence.
Descartes presupposed I; he took existence as a starting point to prove existence. In doing so, he failed.
All I want to know is that I exist. I want to know that my thoughts are my own. But I have found nothing that proves certainty.
Anyone help? — Kranky
Descartes did not presuppose the existence of "I". He experienced his thought and that gave rise to the inescapable, irrefutable truth, that he exists; — god must be atheist
Out of curiosity, why?All I want to know is that I exist. — Kranky
Descartes presupposed I; he took existence as a starting point to prove existence. In doing so, he failed. — Kranky
In reality, Descartes did not think that the cogito was a truth of experience in the usual sense of the term. It was a rational intuition that I think and that if I think it is rationally impossible for me not to exist. The negation of the cogito ergo sum would be a blatant contradiction. — David Mo
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