SOSC 1009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cogito Ergo Sum
15 Apr 2014
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If god wants to deceive me he can deceive me with mathematics: when you think a mathematical proposition such as 1+1=2 you cannot doubt it. When you are thinking mathematical you cannot doubt it. When you think about mathematics you bring god in the context therefore you doubt it. (59: mathematics is view in two different ways. In terms of all decartes has to say i think therefore i am is never ever doubted. There is a physiological irresistibility (pg 81) (84: step 2. In order for the i think therefore i am to be proven true that it is self contridicotry it has to be a analytical statement. Predicquet is different from the subject: aj iyer position is correct, second move is it maybe that decartes did not understand what we were though today, that he was confused ( highly unlikely)
