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instagram#15 Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ...

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sushant Singh Rajput (@sushantsinghrajput) The Latin cogito, ergo sum , usually translated into English as " I think, therefore I am ", is the "first principle" of RenĂ© Descartes's philosophy. Cogito, ergo sum One of the deepest and most lasting legacies of Descartes’ philosophy is his thesis that mind and body are really distinct—a thesis now called “mind-body dualism.” He reaches this conclusion by arguing that the nature of the mind (that is, a thinking, non-extended thing) is completely different from that of the body (that is, an extended, non-thinking thing), and therefore it is possible for one to exist without the other. RenĂ© Descartes: The Mind-Body Distinction Sushant is rejecting Descartes statement above by stating "But when you don’t doubt, you could still think, even when you don’t think, you could already know, what you know is, exactly what you always were and will be."...