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Heh. Thanks. I looked for the blushing emoticon but didn't see it.

Sure! That gets along with the notion that philosophy should be concerned with the ideas themselves rather than who says them.

I think feedback alone is enough, with maybe a thread after the fact where people share why they thought this or that essay was better, but it's not s...

:D Well, that takes down my theory. Is it really less real if we already have two threads discussing the curiosity? But this is a better rendition. I'...

Yes, this is what I meant. If anyone puts forth the effort then they can know that at least one person will read and comment.

I clicked "Maybe", but probably should have said "Yes" -- if there are essays then I'd participate as a reader.

Yeah... I just don't think that's the argument Descartes is making. I'm insistent that he's not appealing to faith at all, but rather is deducing that...

I'd put it that faith is outside of the frame of discussion, but not opposed. We can have faith in something we know and in something we do not know, ...

I'd read philosophy essays if people submitted them. That's always been the problem before -- essays require more work than posts :D

Yes. "...exists", as I'm construcing these thinkers, means... Descartes: A first order predicate which can be deduced from the concepts. Kant: A predi...

There is one, we're just still arguing over who has won it and what you get for winning and what it means to win in the first place. Also, to ensure n...

I think, supposing we were to take up Descartes' side in this back-and-forth, Descartes could reply that Sartre has no right to claim externalization ...

I'd say that neither believe in the supernatural -- and even if we mean "supernatural" in the sense of "outside of nature" Descartes still believes in...

Some additional thoughts on why Kant is relevant to the question of the cogito, and at least Sartre. The ontological argument is one of the big target...

Yeah, but Kierkegaard also took up several writing personas to demonstrate a kaleidoscope of thoughts (one I do not claim to understand). Nietzsche wr...

I'll note that I'm inclined to not grant degrees to reality, so I suppose I fit the mold. But in trying to think of ways to make sense of it.... When ...

No apology needed, you did nothing wrong. You're good!

I'm just going to state my confusion and see where that takes us instead of trying to rephrase the question: I'm tempted by the exegetical hole again ...

I don't see anything wrong with saying an experience ends. Some experiences are episodic. But I don't think the cogito, even with the structure of tem...

I'd be interested in hearing more from you on this comment. (I've read some of Husserl's anti-psychologist arguments and found them amenable, but not ...

Heh. I don't mind things that feel like "moves" -- they all feel like that, really! It's just which move feels right to the reader which chooses what ...

Am I to infer that the cogito's material composition is thought, then? So when I think about the cogito the object of my thought is thought and the co...

I find foundationalism problematic, and so Descartes problematic on this point. Subjectivity comes up too often for me to think the cogito, or the phi...

OK Thanks. That one is making much more sense to me. Chewing it over, will post more if I think of something.

But imagine we could derive something.... :D Okiedokie. That looks like a terminus, though I think there's more to the cogito than that. Descartes, yo...

I can answer better for Sartre since that's what I'm more mired in at the moment: tl;dr -- no. Extended: his is not a psychological story in the sense...

Do you think anything can be inferred from the cogito, whatsoever? Or is it entirely different from the philosophical subject, or are they one and the...

I'm not following how your justifications justify "no" -- I'd almost think you were saying the opposite, even. I've given it a bit to think over but I...

I suppose I'm more persuaded by Descartes argument that in the moment of thinking "I think" that seems an indubitable proposition even though I'm thin...

One thing I can infer from thinking "I think" is that I think. So if I think then I think. Indubitability is the easy thing to attack, I think, but in...

Fair. Yeah, we can do a whole thread on Descartes, and that's already been done too. I realize there's a lot to Cartesian interpretation which I'm fin...

By "Shift from certainty to doubt" I mean that Sartre is asking what would remain of doubt if we were only an instant, whereas for Descartes the insta...

Yes! It might take us too far astray, but the notions of continuity are actually deeply related -- the quote here is in the third section on temporali...

What is the substance of the object (and, thereby, the subject by your sentence)? And what is this different conditioning?

Yeh. Hopefully the above clarified a bit, but to reiterate -- I'm the one bringing in the notion of the skeptic to the notion of the subject by way of...

The cogito in Kant is interesting since it's just an abstract appendage to every assertion that one could possibly make. It refers to the transcendent...

My thinking is that the text and some exegesis is there to give us a little something more to dig into than our own thoughts, but I do mean to ask the...

I'm still in the middle of reading it, but yeah the in-itself is not who I am but a kind of facticity (or, at least, historicity -- I'm thinking these...

I'd say certainty -- clear and distinct ideas -- is how he gets there. Looking at Meditation 3 right now: I read up to about there to refresh my memor...

I don't think so. My line of thinking here is if we know something, then at least in that respect we are not deceived. I think the change in outcomes ...

He's not responding to a skeptic here really, but using Descartes as a foil and it seems to me to fit a certain conception of the self as popularized ...

Yeah, but it's very different -- methodical doubt is a process for finding a certain foundation for knowledge in Descartes. He's using it as a tool to...

The beauty of Plato is that it's in the form of a dialogue. Socrates in the dialogue believes, perhaps, that there's an answer but that's not the view...

I think Biden would have won a second term if he hadn't done so bad in the debate. And it's noteworthy that the United States was willing to elect a b...

Hawt damn. Looks like it was worth all the posts after all :D

OK, yes, same question. Nevermind to my above.

Right. But is there anything more to it than the difference in the shapes of the letters?

Oh, yes. Very much. The topics are related but I'm trying to remain on target with @"NotAristotle" here.

Cool. We agree there. So when we start using things like "P" to represent any proposition whatsoever this relies upon substitution. Without a notion o...

I think there's a difference and I've committed to indications for the difference -- in the recent posts substitution has been the criteria I've been ...