| Re: Have I just disproven The Cogito?
your premise is flawed, The Cogito does not mean "I think therefor I am" as a constant, only in the instant when you're actually thinking it can you be sure you exist. "I am, I exist at the moment I think it"
your hypothesis is paradoxical because you say the demon could be using anti-logic... but on what? something that clearly exists!
You say it could be thought without a thinker? but the thought itself is something that exists!
"I am, I exist, at the moment I think it" ... this becomes a reference to the thought itself. Merely the thought being self-aware is ratification of The Cogito.
Last edited by TragicHero; 9th July 2005 at 1:48pm.
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