RE: virus: The One or the Many? (was: META)

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Sat, 1 Nov 1997 10:47:20 -0000


> >I think Descartes (and certainly Berkeley) would agree that to doubt
> is to
> >be soulless and godless and without recourse to truth.
>
Descartes founded his philosophy on doubt.

"I think therefore I am" derives directly from it:
He found that the only thing he could not doubt,
was that he doubted. Doubting is just a
particular form of thought, so: I think therefore
I am.

I don't agree with the "therefore I am" bit, but
doubting being all that can't doubted seems
fairly solid, as regards logic. An experiential
take on it might be different. You cannot do
*anything* unless you experience -- or, no
input, no output, no stimulus, no response.

Robin