I think therefore i am?

Question

explain what it means

Answer 1

Descartes was trying to come up with a foundation for rationalist philosophy. He wanted to develop a philosophy that was completely beyond doubt, a philosophy whose conclusions are necessarily true. To do so, he knew he needed to find a basic axiom (other than the principle of non-contradiction) that was impossible to deny. However, he found that he could reasonably deny almost any "obvious" fact by using his "brain in a vat" argument. Basically, this says that you can't know that you aren't an isolated brain attached to a machine that's making you aware of the things of which you're aware. Thus, he couldn't be sure of the seemingly obvious fact that his pen and paper were real. However, when he tried to extend this to doubt about his own existence, he realized that he couldn't do so, because to deny his existence is to think. If he thinks, he acts, and a non-existent thing can't act. Therefore, from the undeniable fact that he thinks, he concluded his basic axiom, that he exists. He stated this as "Cogito ergo sum," "I think, therefore I am."

Answer 2

All this is true for "Rational thinkers". As is the entire ECONOMICS true for the rational behavior of buyers and sellers. It collapses for all irrationalities.

A person suffering from mental retardation can not qualify that term ( I think therefore....) though he exists. Therefore, existence is not merely slave of thinking. Anything exists even independent of the knowledge of observer trying to investigator it.

Edit: here the author of the statement is biased to the "quality of existence of those who can think rationally like him" - a sort of racism of superior brains. And he treats retarded ones or inferiors as vermins of bio foodchain.

Answer 3

This phrase has been the source of many long debates in philosophy and basically there is no right answer. Many have interpreted it as our mood. If you think you are hungry, then you are hungry. Others say that thinking is the essence of existence. Without the ability to think, we essentially don't exist.

Answer 4

This means that I exist because I think. If reversed, you would not exist, were you not thinking. Therefore, to exist, you would need to think.

Answer 5

This poor fellow was not sure if he existed. He assured that he existed because he was thinking.
I had forgotten who he was.

Answer 6

wow where di that come from..... sounds like something from physics and philosophy