Please explain this to me in your opinion and no real facts.
2007-11-07 10:21:27 · 11 answers · asked by SK07KS 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Please explain it to me so i can write an essay out of it.
2007-11-07 10:25:10 · update #1
how can i write a four page essay on this topic?
2007-11-07 10:42:59 · update #2
okay, my essay is to explain and reword the phrase in my own words
four-six pages
six-up paragraphs
2007-11-07 10:53:45 · update #3
I dont believe it has anything to do with existing...
Everyone exists.
What you stand for and believe makes you what you are.
Ok. I just read the additional details ONCE AGAIN. Umm..This is what i would do. I would think about these words long and hard. Because if someone is making you write this ridiculously long essay on these words then it MUST be important.
OK, There cant be a wrong answer for your essay because eveyrone interprets things differently, everyone in your class is going to have something different on their paper. So first of all dont worry about it. Just write down your thoughts about what it means TO YOU.
Remember there is no wrong answer!
All the best!
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2007-11-07 10:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Descartes' original goal was to set a firm foundation for the rest of his philosophy. To do this, he tried to eliminate everything about which he could not be absolutely certain.
Information from his senses was one of the very first things he threw out. As anyone who has seen an illusionist can tell you, what you see is not always what is really going on. The more we learn about our senses, the more we find that our brain is filling in completely made-up information into what only SEEMS to be a continuous and accurate picture of what's going on around us.
This left Descartes in a bit of a dilemma. For if ALL our sensory information is suspect, that takes with it everything in the entire universe. What is left that does not include possibly illusionary external phenomenon?
Descartes concluded that the very least he could be certain of was that he did have thoughts. The CONTENT of thoughts may be influenced by those external phenomenon which were suspect, but their EXISTANCE was not. This led to the famous line where he declares 'I have thoughts, so -I- must exist'. If thoughts are present, then Descartes must also exist, as the person who has those thoughts. He may or may not have any physical apparatus, but he at least is a thinking being who has thoughts.
It also bears mention that although many people like to quote him as saying, "I think, therefore I am" (or Latin for the same, "cogito ergo sum", or French for the same, "je pense, donc je suis"), Descartes never actually says this in his book on the topic ('Meditations of First Philosophy'). Even Descartes noticed this happening in his lifetime and ended up trying to stress what he DOES say: "I am, I exist".
2007-11-07 10:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Every answer above is correct. But to say it differently, "cognoscentum" is an object of cognition. If you had no cognition, it could only be because no object exists, meaning existence would not exist. You have cognition of your own cognition because you have cognition that it exists; therefore you must necessarily exist.
2007-11-08 00:01:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a thinking volatile human being. I think to build a roof over my head, find food, produce provide.
Animals have instincts....so they lack the personality of being a special person. They are all fairly alike. Humans are as different as night and day because we operate with emotions, senses, and our brain. I think...therefore I am a human person person with various emotions.
2007-11-07 10:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Simply put, it's a proof based on grammer. If there's a verb, there must be a subject. If there's thinking, there must be a thinker.
2007-11-07 10:29:11 · answer #5 · answered by Steve S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By the act of conscious thought, one realizes that they are ('are' meaning that they exist). Also, by being able to (if this makes sense) think about your own ability to think, then that also is a sign of sentience and existence.
2007-11-07 10:28:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
u control your emotions and behaviors
or it could be the subject of mind over matter
2007-11-07 13:13:31 · answer #7 · answered by firemaster22191 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you can think, you have to exist because you are doing the thinking.
2007-11-07 10:23:51 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's flawed. It assume the "I" that it's meant to prove
2007-11-07 10:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you don't think, then you can't exist because there is no body to hold the brain which is where you think.
2007-11-07 10:26:50 · answer #10 · answered by legos_r_me 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋