"I think, therefore I am." What does this mean? To me, this means to have faith and not doubt yourself. René Descartes, like many of us, was pondering about his existence. There wasn't any factual evidence to prove he was real, but he said that if he thought he was real, then he was. In my opinion, this quote means that if you truly believe in something without any evidence, don't doubt yourself. You think, therefore you are.
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Descartes Blog Post #5Descartes belief with perception, an intuition of the mind, contained the idea of irrefutable truth, absolute, undeniable truth. For example, in paragraph three of the reading, Descartes explains how he saw men outside his window with coats hats, but they really are not men, that is just what his mind wants to see. They could've been women in coats and hats, even robots! In the picture above, we see a cloud, at least that's what I see, because authority has made believe this. If you look at the sky right now, this is not how a cloud looks. The process of us thinking about this is an irrefutable truth, but the outcome, or what we see is not.
TLP ArtifactTLP artifact showing multiple perspectives and that structure has things that interrelate.
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May 2017
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