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12 mar 2024 · Dive into the philosophical questions that prompted René Descartes to come up with his famous phrase, “I think therefore I am.”
3 gru 2008 · Descartes constructed the Meditations so as to secure this process of withdrawal from the senses in Meditation I. Meditation II discovers an initial truth, the cogito (7:25), elsewhere summarized as the argument “cogito, ergo sum,” or “I think, therefore I am” (7:140).
3 gru 1997 · Edwin Curley helpfully notes that Descartes “consistently blurs the distinction between inferences and propositions by referring to the whole formula ‘I think, therefore I am’ as a truth, a first principle, a proposition, and a conclusion” (1978, 79).
In the Meditations, Descartes phrases the conclusion of the argument as "that the proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind" (Meditation II).
The most serious debate about formulation concerns inference. Versions of the cogito appear in each of Descartes’ three main published philosophical works. The “canonical” formulation (as I shall call it) includes an explicit inference – “I am thinking, therefore [ergo] I exist.”.
René Descartes (born March 31, 1596, La Haye, Touraine, France—died February 11, 1650, Stockholm, Sweden) was a French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher.
26 lis 2018 · René Descartes (1596-1650) argues you could: this belief, and almost all other beliefs, are not certain. Descartes argues that there is one clear exception, however: “I think, therefore I am.”[1] He claims to have discovered a belief that is certain and irrefutable.
