all of which reduces to Descartes’ cogito — Mww
Makes sense.one cannot doubt that an experience of doubt is being had, and so that some kind of experience is being had. — Pfhorrest
This sounds rock solid...But, does it necessarily imply duality?But I then say that the concept of an experience is inherently a relational one: someone has an experience of something. An experience being had by nobody is an experience not being had at all, and an experience being had of nothing is again an experience not being had at all. This indubitable experience thus immediately gives justification to the notion of both a self, which is whoever the someone having the experience is, and also a world, which is whatever the something being experienced is. — Pfhorrest
Descartes: I think, therefore I am
Lichtenburg: Thinking is occurring.
George suggested that Rene went 'too far' with the Cogito and that he presupposed that the 'I' exists. Who is right? — Tom343
That sounds logical but could experiencer, experiencing, and experience... or self, perception, and object perceived...could such division be a delusion of the experiencer or self?An experience being had by nobody is an experience not being had at all, and an experience being had of nothing is again an experience not being had at all. — Pfhorrest
all of which reduces to Descartes’ cogito
— Mww
Not quite. Instead of “I think, therefore I am”, you have “I experience something, therefore I and that something exist”. — Pfhorrest
Even if it were insisted that experiencing of thought follows necessarily from the rational activity of thinking, we should see cognizance from perception, which is experience, and cognizance from thought, which is reason, accord with separate and distinct rational faculties, having no logical warrant for being considered congruent consequences. — Mww
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