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Foolsworth
02-09-2008, 09:02 PM
Um... I ...well just a minute please.
I Think,Therefore I ...ah,let me see.
I Ah!,well I Um! I kinda,somewhat,maybe even Tink.
Dats' it.
I Think,therefore I Post.
That can't be right.
I don't have ta Tink ta Post.
It don't even help Mush.
Therefore I Am !.
Mores like it.



I think that I think;therefore,I think that I am.
Cogito cogito,ergo cogito sum.

" I rebel,therefore I am. "
-- Camus,quoted in New York Times,Oct.29,1967

" I ought,therefore I can "
-- Kant

" I want,therefore I am "
-- Tolstoy

" Sometimes I think: and sometimes I am. "
-- Paul Valery

Dubito,ergo credo.
" I doubt therefore I believe "
-- Marshall Fishwick

" The real and concrete truth,not the methodical and ideal,is
Homo sum,ergo cogito. "
-- Unamuno - The Tragic Sense of Life -

" ... the saying should be labore,ergo sum;
I labor,therefore I am a man. "
-- Stirner - The Ego and It's Own -

" Don Juan: I said,with the foolish philosopher," I think;therefore
I am. " It was woman who taught me tp say " I am;therefore I Think."
-- Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman - {1903} Act III

" There is,of course,the cogito ergo sum principle -- perhaps
the most famous of all philosophical theories ... which incidentally,
is fallacious. "
-- Barrows Dunham - Man Against Myth - {1947}

" Descartes' Cogito,ergo sum,applies no longer. "
-- Haeckel - The Riddle of the Universe -

sedan
02-09-2008, 09:08 PM
"Cogito ergo am. I think, therefore I sum."

Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Foolsworth
02-09-2008, 09:45 PM
"Cogito ergo am. I think, therefore I sum."

Douglas Hofstadter
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

" But what is man? Shall I say a rational animal?
Assuredly not.... "
-- Rene Descartes