Chris,
In fact, he looked for what he could not "doubt".
He held (expressed) no pre-conceptions about what reality may consist in.
>From "thinking", he concluded "existence": his own.
--Joe
PS Skate-boarder, there?
> Chris Austin-Lane <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Spin wheels, hit grey bin
> Stability gone ground nears
> Legs absorb the speed
>
> Or,
>
> I doubt Descartes meant ratiocination or syllogistic reasoning by Cogito
> (tho I have not read much Descartes), so I tend to find his assertion that
> subjective experience provides all the proof we need of reality to be a
> reasonable statement. Not unlike saying that when we see things clearly
> there is no room for doubt.
[scrunch]
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