To: thinktwice
Why not
sum ergo cogito? Descartes admitted the idea of infinity as real. Hobbes wouldn't. In the Meditations, Descartes has reasons: his own finitude implied divine infinity.
7 posted on
11/04/2002 8:00:21 AM PST by
cornelis
To: cornelis
If it weren't for the fact that there are lots of people who demonstrably are but who nonetheless show no signs of actual thought your reversal of "I think therefore I am" to "I am therefore I think" (sum ergo cogito) might have more merit.
447 posted on
10/30/2003 10:54:48 AM PST by
katana
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