it is,therefore i am,what does it mean?

Answer 1

Do you mean "I think, therefore I am"? This comes from the philosopher Descartes whose reasoning goes like this:

I can doubt the existence of the world I see around me, other people's minds, the stars, the earth, and everything else EXCEPT that I know that I am thinking about it and so I must exist in order to be doing that thinking. That is, I think, therefore I am.

Answer 2

You probably mean "I think, therefore I am" by Descartes.

The great 17th century philosopher Rene Descartes attempted to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that can be known as true without any doubt. He employed a number of mind games with himself to do this – is that a chair or am I dreaming it is a chair? It may appear solid but it may just be imaginary, the senses are unreliable and can be tricked etc - He rejected any idea that could be doubted, which includes physical objects and abstracts such as God, and arrived at only one thing that he couldn’t find reason to doubt, his own thoughts existed, therefore he existed.

More accurately he thought – ‘I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.’

From this he build up the idea that we should use rational thought (deduction) to guide us. There is obviously a great more to this, but his philosophy had a major influence on the Enlightenment and the development of modern science and medicine, that rejected superstition and emotion and valued dispassionate experimentation and evidence.

He was also a major figure in mathematics.

Answer 3

Assuming you meant I think, therefore I am.

Just imagine a moment that you are in an entirely artificial world, where nothing you see, hear or touch is real. Every person you meet could be just a product of the artificial world. What certainties could you draw from that world. Well basically only one. The only thing you can be sure of the existence of is you, because by imagining the world you have created it in your head, and to do so, your head must exist.

If you did not exist, you could not imagine self, therefore by thinking of yourself, you must exist.

Answer 4

I am a minister, and I accept belief of God and life by faith, spirit, and the Holy Bible. That of course can be completely rejected by others.

Descartes is I think trying to show here that the mind capable of working shows there must be an existence of a human. That has a degree of validity. Philosophers, such as Descartes, try to develop theories that have a broadness. They hoped to prove how and why they are people.

Therefore, I think there are limitations to the statement. I can think of things that don't exist, purple people eaters. Very, very primitive peoples had very limited thoughts, but they existed just as real as we do. I can believe or not believe in God; does my thinking make him exist or not?

I went on a little aside since philosophers try to develop statements of some breadth, which I think this one lacks. But it is good to discuss and examine.

Answer 5

I think you mean "I think, therefore I am" which is an English translation from the original Latin: "Cogito, ergo sum" which was in turn translated from the French: "Je pense, donc je suis". René Descartes said it meaning that his belief in his existence meant that he did exist, even if some higher power was deceiving him; the fact that a God was deceiving him proved that he existed.

Answer 6

Some Thing always has been, as absolutely nothing comes of absolutely nothing.

Therefore you are.

It means either God Is, divine Mind, Creator, or Matter has always been, and is quite delicately balanced, out to billionths of a percentage, for our universe to exist in its life-sustaining configuration.

As even proton decay is postulated (the LHC in 2008 will begin testing for this), matter at our level seems less than eternal.

When one "lets this Mind abide, which was also in Christ Jesus," one tends philosophically to say "God Is, therefore One Mind Soul-individuation" (a la Plotinus).

You might find value in "Climb the Highest Mountain," Mark Prophet, "A Philosophy of Universality," O. M. Aivanhov, "Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, and even at http://www.tiller.org http://www.integralscience.org and http://www.divinecosmos.com

Answer 7

Do you mean " I think, therefore I am" perhaps.

Have a think about it, what do you think it means?

Answer 8

It means that you are aware of something other than yourself and so you are aware of your own existence.

It isn't much different than "I think; therefore I am".

You are aware, you do indeed exist.

Answer 9

Affirmative means yes.

Answer 10

"I think, therefore I am"

I think it means that as humans, our mind kind of determines who we are.