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Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
'" (Usually translated in English as: "I think, therefore I am", but can be less ambiguously translated as "I am thinking, therefore I exist" or "I am thinking, on the account of being"), sometimes mi...
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Descartes' statement-I think therefore I am,the most famous statement in the history of philosophy ... But perhaps that would not be quite fair and so one might continue with "I think therefore I am." That statement, perhaps the most famous in the history of philosophy ... illustrates precisely the opposite of what I believe...
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In the Second Meditation, Descartes tries to establish absolute certainty in his famous reasoning: Cogito, ergo sum or “I think, therefore I am.” These Meditations are conducted from the first person perspective, from Descartes.’ However, he expects his reader to meditate along with him to see how his...
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I think, therefore I am. It is never bare thought or bare existence that we are aware of. I find myself rather as essentially a unity of emotions, of enjoyment of hopes, of fears, of regrets, evaluations of alternatives, decisions - all of these are subjective reactions to my environment as I am active in my nature.
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So Fred can reason about Alice and how Alice thinks about him. Therefore, if he does some action, what will she think and how will she react. Based on what he thinks she will do, he can make a decision about what he will do.
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Once again, it comes down to the force vector qualities of the object in the environment over the ease with which it can proliferate (eg, HTML isn't the winner because it is the best but because it is easy to remember and therefore author for a tipping point percentage of applications).
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