"I think, therefore I am" This is quote, said by Rene Descartes, only has 5 words, but those 5 words are powerful. Those 5 words changed the world of philosophy and espistemology. Looking in depth into this quote, it can get quite confusing. Rene, like may others, doubted his existence. What if none of this is real and this is all a dream? What if we're all in a computer game? What if we don't exist? Rene came to a conclusion that if he was questioning his existence and was thinking, he was real. Hence making the the quote "I think therefore I am" an irrefutable truth.
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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.
AuthorEmely Mora Archives
May 2017
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