Bertrand Russell said Descarte stopped his doubting one step to soon. He should have said
what is truly indubitable is, "There is thinking".
Brent
On 11/21/2013 12:09 AM, LizR wrote:
Hmm. How about "I think, therefore there is thought" - "I perceive, therefore there is
perception" - and so on? Isn't the subject a (possibly awarranted) assumption?
On 21 November 2013 19:24, Roger Clough <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I
The true meaning of Descartes' famous dictum, "I think, therefore I am"
can be clarified further by restating it using Leibniz' model of
being (essence+existent) if the proposition is restated as
"I think, therefore there is an I", or equivalently as
"I perceive, therefore there is an I", or in
fact any proposition containing a the subject "I" and a verb.
Such propositions are simple intentional acts by the mind,
not the brain, where "I" is the essence or monad of the
existent brain, which then thinks much as a violin is
played by a violinist.
This also answers Heidigger's life-long search for
an answer to the question "what is being?"
Being is "I am" or essence+existence.
Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000]
See my Leibniz site at
http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
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