2006-10-26 04:55:55 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Hey! It's hard enough to type let alone spell with fins!! Thank You just the same though.
2006-10-26 05:02:36 · update #1
Descartes was so brilliant, I think he said that anyway.
2006-10-26 05:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if he had been a fish; he probably wouldn't have been the Descartes we are talking about now....He would have been too busy doing the things that all CSKL do! We all know that isn't philosophy! lol
2006-10-26 13:07:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously not. He would have been too busy working on the offside rules for twelve-dimensional Plutonian steam hockey.
Don't you just love counterfactuals?
2006-10-26 12:09:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
'Cognito ergo sum' doesn't mean 'my actions are the essence of my existence', it means "it is impossible to doubt the existence of the self, because that self must exist in order to perform that doubting".
Nietzche disproved this, however.
2006-10-26 11:59:20 · answer #4 · answered by Jim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the thing. Do fish think? They exist, so they must, right? But we think they exist. Does our thinking make them exist? All existence is what we percieve.
Strange.
2006-10-26 12:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's "Descartes", as any CSKLT would be quick to tell you.
2006-10-26 12:00:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋