Re: Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-21 Thread LizR
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 rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I The true meaning

Re: Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-21 Thread LizR
, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-21 Thread meekerdb
on? Isn't the subject a (possibly awarranted) assumption? On 21 November 2013 19:24, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net mailto:rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-21 Thread LizR
Which could almost be comp, in a nutshell. On 22 November 2013 07:22, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: Bertrand Russell said Descarte stopped his doubting one step to soon. He should have said what is truly indubitable is, There is thinking. -- You received this message because you

Leibniz: I think, therefore there is an I

2013-11-20 Thread Roger Clough
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