I exist so therefore I am?...What does this mean?

Answer 1

It means that you're here, right? Voilà

Answer 2

I think you mean the famous philosophical quote by René Descartes "Cogito ergo sum", which means "I think, therefore I am".

What it basically means is that your own existence is the one thing you know to be true. You can be deceived by just about anything, all your five senses can be fooled into believing something that's not true, for example on a hot day you might see a mirage that looks like a pool pf water, but it's not there. The very fact you are thinking means you must exist.

Answer 3

It seems you've simply confused a famous statement by the French philosoper Rene Descartes:

'Cogito, ergo sum' which is Latin for 'I think, therefore I am'

But if you did not confuse that statement and truly want to know what 'I exist therefore I am' means, well...'am' is a conjugated form of the being verb 'is.' To be is to exist. You exist so therefore you are. It simply means that you exist...so you exist.

Answer 4

It means that at some point in life you have heard of epistemology. Check out Descartes' Epistemology on the web. Descartes tackled the question of god's existence by stating "I think therefore I am". Therefore I exist because god exists. That's kind of a butchered statement of Descartes, but you will have to read up for yourself.

Answer 5

I thought it was I think, therefore I am?

If that's what you are talking about, this speaks to the power of the human mind. If we tell our mind something, our mind believes it and makes it reality according to our own perceptions. But if we think that we do not exist, suddenly, we do not. OF course, it is a bit more than just saying "I don't think I exist" it's actually believing that you don't exist. Your mind will compensate until you truly don't. Funny the way that works.

Answer 6

As phrased, nothing. It is a takeoff on Descartes' famous dictum: "I think, therefore I am." This was an early (and not very successful) attempt to develop an entire philosophical system ab initio, without reference to observed data, which, as Descartes correctly observed, can be misleading. Misleading or not, you cannot go far in philosophical ramblings without taking real data into account: at some point, you either have to achieve agreement with the real world, or find your system to be useless.

Answer 7

That's a deviation to the saying, "Cogito, ergo sum" or "I think; therefore I am."

Though it wasn't originally intended for this, it's basically a rebuttal against those that argue we don't really exist. Believe it or not, there are many people who believe that we're simply figments of imagination. This goes on to the question, "If a tree falls and no one is around to see or hear it, did it really fall?"

Ridiculous, really, but there it is.

Answer 8

The original saying is "I think therefore I am". It's just a philosopher trying to justify wether we are all really here or not. He rationalized that since he was thinking about the problem, that he did exist because he was thinking.

Answer 9

I think you might have mean to type:

"I THINK I exist therefore I am"

It was the philosopher Descartes' declaration of the starting point of all knowledge and truth.

Basically, the fact expressed by the premise is sufficient to constitute the fact of a person's existence. It's a tautology.

Answer 10

Nothing, it's a meaningless self-referential expression, like one equals one. The classical expression, from Rene Descartes, is: "cogito ergo sum", "I think, therefore I am."

Answer 11

It's 'I think, therefore I am (Descartes, if memory serves)'.
A following question should be obvious: 'My thoughts are non-material, therefore so is my real essence, or my soul.'
Try comparing that to the Bible.