Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
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Impenitent
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Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists
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Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Any discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions.Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:23 pm subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists
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Impenitent
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a discussion without phraseology is like mathematics without equations...socrattus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:23 pmAny discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions.Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:23 pm subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists
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Mathematics is a scientific language, phraseology is an empty tautology.Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:17 pma discussion without phraseology is like mathematics without equations...socrattus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:23 pmAny discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions.Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:23 pm subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists
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Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
If the (I Am) is the “blank canvas” of pure awareness. Then “thoughts” are my painting.
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream" 
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Martin Peter Clarke
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Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:17 pma discussion without phraseology is like mathematics without equations...socrattus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 8:23 pmAny discussion can be drowned in phraseology and emotions.Impenitent wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:23 pm subject : verb; therefore, subject : exists
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popeye1945
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Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
"I think, therefore I am?" This could equally be, I feel, therefore I am.
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Awareness of being aware is an artificial secondary reality on behalf of a separate self within what is already consciousness one without a second.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 1:47 am "I think, therefore I am?" This could equally be, I feel, therefore I am.
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Re: Descartes: "I Think Therefore I Am"
Why do you say “equally”? The former is a step in an argument in which the latter has no place.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 1:47 am "I think, therefore I am?" This could equally be, I feel, therefore I am.
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I think, therefore those who were, are.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 22, 2025 1:47 am "I think, therefore I am?" This could equally be, I feel, therefore I am.
Define were: what was, but is not.