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A big problem in philosophy is whether something is 'true' and what it even means for something to be 'true'. That debate reached its nadir around Descartes's time, when philosophers were unsure whether anything could be proven to be true as there is no way to even prove our own existence, and so anything we observe would not be real if we ourselves are not real.
Descartes broke this deadlock by reasoning that the fact that we doubt our own existence means that SOMETHING must be doing the thinking that causes us to doubt things, and therefore that thinking entity, at the very least, must be something that actually exists (otherwise it couldn't doubt its own existence). Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am (i.e. must exist). Establishing our own existence provided a base from which other things could start to be proven philosophically.
>>715869206
>>715870820
A big problem in philosophy is whether something is 'true' and what it even means for something to be 'true'. That debate reached its nadir around Descartes's time, when philosophers were unsure whether anything could be proven to be true as there is no way to even prove our own existence, and so anything we observe would not be real if we ourselves are not real.
Descartes broke this deadlock by reasoning that the fact that we doubt our own existence means that SOMETHING must be doing the thinking that causes us to doubt things, and therefore that thinking entity, at the very least, must be something that actually exists (otherwise it couldn't doubt its own existence). Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum. I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am (i.e. must exist). Establishing our own existence provided a base from which other things could start to be proven philosophically.
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