Re: CHAT: another new language to check out

> From:    Joe <joe@...>
> Subject: Re: another new language to check out
>
> Chris Bates wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>> Anyway, my point was just that everything including science requires
>>> faith, because to "know" anything, you have to take some basic knowledge
>>> for granted to build the rest. :) If you decide to take nothing on faith
>>> you end up like Descartes, who decided that the only thing he could
>>> believe in was his own existence (the famous "Cognito ergo Sum" or
>>> rather "Cognito, Sum" as Christophe corrected us last time).
>>>
>
>
> Indeed.  Maybe that's the most logical view of the universe- we are all
> that exists.  It's certainly the simplest.
Okay, I just can't let this one pass ;) Descartes most certainly did not
believe he was the only thing that existed. "Cognito, Sum" was merely
the first step of his proofs. It has been a while since I read the his
discourses, but I recall that he uses that proof to then prove a number
of other things, including the existance of God. While his philosophies
were perfect (who's is?) he was far beyond simple soliphism.
ttfn,
~Trinsic

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