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Tom343

['Member']Joined: September 18, 2020 at 15:05Last active: September 25, 2020 at 19:442 discussions11 comments

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In: Who was right on certainty...Descartes or Lichtenburg?  — view comment
Do individuals know with certainty that they exist? Or simply that thoughts exist?
September 21, 2020 at 17:48
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
So it's certain I exist? So why do people say Descartes was wrong?
September 20, 2020 at 20:29
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
Anyone else got a thought on this?
September 20, 2020 at 07:00
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
Anyone?
September 19, 2020 at 10:10
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
But this 'evidence' that you talk of, if that's not certain in itself and can therefore be doubted, how is anything more likely than unlikely?
September 19, 2020 at 08:22
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
How do you know? Because you have conscious thoughts? Couldn't it be that thoughts could possible without a thinker? Why must it be that they require ...
September 18, 2020 at 20:10
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
I'm just confused. You're saying that I exist for certain? And that the conscious thoughts that I 'appear' to have are happening without a doubt?
September 18, 2020 at 20:03
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
So it's certain that I exist? And it is certain that my thoughts are happening? How can anyone be sure of that?
September 18, 2020 at 19:57
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
But Descartes presupposed that 'I' exists. Nietzsche and others have suggested thoughts can exist without a thinker. Perhaps in a way that 'we' cannot...
September 18, 2020 at 19:45
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
But Descartes only proved that thoughts exist? He did not prove that there had to be a thinker? It is, in my mind (pun intended), preposterous to sugg...
September 18, 2020 at 18:55
In: Philosophy....Without certainty, what does probability even contribute?  — view comment
But how does probability help things? I cannot see beyond me existing and not existing as being equally plausible.
September 18, 2020 at 15:50
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