2006-07-25 09:27:55 · 14 answers · asked by You really_believe_that_shit? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
lol! Best question of the day!! :)
2006-07-25 09:33:09 · answer #1 · answered by mb5_ca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
But I know of another "Descartes" story like yours.
A sports jock was taking a philosophy test... the question was "Who said, I think, therefore I am?" and the student vanished from the classroom.
This is just a story, not a statement about sports jocks.
2006-07-25 16:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by Malika 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never heard of this cat till I started answering these questions, so I took a little time and read about him. I'll say this, he never turned down a drink! So if he said "I think not" I'm sure he'd disappear. After all he coined the phrase "I drink therefore I am".
2006-07-25 16:43:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you be sure Descartes existed in the first place?
2006-07-25 16:30:04 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I think therefore I am, but it's not "If and only if I think I am" For instance, if something doesn't think, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. If something thinks, it MUST exist, because something that doesn't exist can't be thinking! Of course, by saying that it's thinking, you're saying "it is thinking" and so you've already determined that "it is."
People need to learn proper rules of logic. Tsk tsk tsk.
2006-07-25 16:31:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doesnt the joke revolve around offering him red wine with fish? Its an oldie either way
2006-07-25 16:30:05 · answer #6 · answered by welsh_witch_sally 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That joke is so old that Voltaire choked on his wine when he first heard it.
2006-07-25 16:29:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. You can deny that you think, but you still do think, therefore you exist.
2006-07-25 16:29:24 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup.
2006-07-25 16:29:29 · answer #9 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because he had to think about his answer. It would be that he isn't thinking, he is thinking "not"
2006-07-25 16:30:34 · answer #10 · answered by ghostbeta34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not thinking and thinking not are two diferent things. he still though, so he still exists
2006-07-25 16:30:09 · answer #11 · answered by Grim Minder 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋