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Author Topic:   "I think therefore I am" - Decartes
Morte
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Message 14 of 30 (132261)
08-10-2004 4:11 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by jar
08-08-2004 3:54 PM


Reminds me of another few...
"I doubt, therefore I might be."
...and...
"I think I think, therefore I think I am."
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I believe, if I remember correctly, that holmes is right in the regard that he didn't mean the original statement so much as a logical, cause-and-effect statement. Not that the fact that he thinks determines his existence, but the fact that he knows he exists because he thinks.

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