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Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Andrew Bowie and Ren Descartes
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
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If we accept mere probabilities as true we undermine our existing knowledge [Descartes]
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In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]
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In morals Descartes accepts the conventional, but rejects it in epistemology [Roochnik on Descartes]
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Descartes tried to model reason on maths instead of 'logos' [Roochnik on Descartes]
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Labelling slightly doubtful things as false is irrational [Roochnik on Descartes]
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Maybe there is only one certain fact, which is that nothing is certain [Descartes]
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Understanding, not the senses, gives certainty [Descartes]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
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If I don't think, there is no reason to think that I exist [Descartes]
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In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes]
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The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes]
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We all see intuitively that we exist, where intuition is attentive, clear and distinct rational understanding [Descartes]
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When Socrates doubts, he know he doubts, and that truth is possible [Descartes]
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Modern philosophy set the self-conscious ego in place of God [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
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"I think therefore I am" is the absolute truth of consciousness [Sartre on Descartes]
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I must even exist if I am being deceived by something [Descartes]
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"I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind [Descartes]
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The Cogito is a transcendental argument, not a piece of a priori knowledge [Rey on Descartes]
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Total doubt can't include your existence while doubting [Descartes]
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Descartes transformed 'God is thinkable, so he exists' into 'I think, so I exist' [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
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In the Meditations version of the Cogito he says "I am; I exist", which avoids presenting it as an argument [Descartes, by Baggini /Fosl]
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I think, therefore I am, because for a thinking thing to not exist is a contradiction [Descartes]
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'Thought' is all our conscious awareness, including feeling as well as understanding [Descartes]
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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
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The Cogito only works if you already understand what thought and existence are [Mersenne on Descartes]
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It is a precondition of the use of the word 'I' that I exist [Ayer on Descartes]
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The thing which experiences may be momentary, and change with the next experience [Russell on Descartes]
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'I think' assumes I exist, that thinking is known and caused, and that I am doing it [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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A thought doesn't imply other thoughts, or enough thoughts to make up a self [Ayer on Descartes]
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That I perform an activity (thinking) doesn't prove what type of thing I am [Hobbes on Descartes]
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Autistic children seem to use the 'I' concept without seeing themselves as thinkers [Segal on Descartes]
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The Cogito assumes a priori the existence of substance, when actually it is a grammatical custom [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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How can we infer that all thinking involves self-consciousness, just from my own case? [Kant on Descartes]
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My self is not an inference from 'I think', but a presupposition of it [Kant on Descartes]
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We cannot give any information a priori about the nature of the 'thing that thinks' [Kant on Descartes]
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The fact that I am a subject is not enough evidence to show that I am a substantial object [Kant on Descartes]
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Descartes' claim to know his existence before his essence is misleading or absurd [Descartes, by Lowe]
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Modern self-consciousness is a doubtful abstraction; only senses and feelings are certain [Feuerbach on Descartes]
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The Cogito proves subjective experience is basic, but makes false claims about the Self [Russell on Descartes]
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Maybe 'I' am not the thinker, but something produced by thought [Nietzsche on Descartes]
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