Cogito Ergo Sum
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Cogito Ergo Sum
Abstract Wed Dec 05, 2012 9:36 am
I think therefore I am.
I know I like to say things like "We can only ever be quite certain that we can never be completely certain." But is this true? Can we not know for certain that we think and thus that we exist?
I question the statement Cogito Ergo Sum. For example what is thinking? How do I know I am not some imaginary alternate personality of some greater being that we are for example all just personalities of God? But then imaginary or not do we not know that we do something whether we call it thinking or not that thus allows us to know we exist as imaginary or not at the least?
What is existence what is being?
But most of all isn't it the case that if Cogito ergo sum is the only certain thing that it is uncertain by induction in that all other things are uncertain. IOW: If all other things are seemingly uncertain does that not give us evidence that this other thing is likely uncertain?
I know I like to say things like "We can only ever be quite certain that we can never be completely certain." But is this true? Can we not know for certain that we think and thus that we exist?
I question the statement Cogito Ergo Sum. For example what is thinking? How do I know I am not some imaginary alternate personality of some greater being that we are for example all just personalities of God? But then imaginary or not do we not know that we do something whether we call it thinking or not that thus allows us to know we exist as imaginary or not at the least?
What is existence what is being?
But most of all isn't it the case that if Cogito ergo sum is the only certain thing that it is uncertain by induction in that all other things are uncertain. IOW: If all other things are seemingly uncertain does that not give us evidence that this other thing is likely uncertain?
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