Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Discourse part 4 par 2&3
Even though he may not have a body, or even may not be in a real place, just the very fact that he doubted the truth clearly showed that he with out a doubt existed. I beleive that he is rite on the money with his concept. Because no one can think for you, so in fact you have to be something, a thinking something. He knew that in order to exist, has no need of any place or any matherial things, it is simply just to think. Because he says i think therefor i am, he assumes that he is speaking the truth, and is very clear to him that in order to think, it is necessary to first exist. For him to think this way, to me is very amazing. By just thinking, he realized that every thing in world may not be what he thinks it is, but no matter all that he is alive and thinking very clearly.
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I agree with what you are saying, that in order to think, it is necessary to first exist. But I think you are leaving out a key part. He says that he concludes, as a general rule, that all things that we very clearly and distinctly conceieve are true, however, the hard part is determining the right objects that we should conceive. It's like, everyone has to think to exist and everything we concieve is true, but its difficult to figure out what is the right thing to think about.
yeah, the truth is very hard to get at. What is really true and what is really false? Even so, how could one ever know what is the truth? Everyone has different ideas to what is the truth and no one will ever know for sure who is correct in their thinking.
i believe you both are right, because he doesn't trust any thing, the on thing he can only truly believe that he is alive and every thing else around him may infact not be true. what else he believes is true im not sure, it sounds like he just believes it's head and brain that may exist
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