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Descartes Knowledge
our existence in reality is a question which philosophers have tackled throughout time. This essay will look at the
phrase, cogito ergo sum or I think therefore I am, a phrase brought about by Rene Descartes. This phrase is the
backbone of Descartes whole philos ....
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.... doesn’t
necessarily prove that we are human beings, it does prove that we are beings. At this point Descartes would say
that we don’t know what we are just that we are. A thinking thing really has a very vague description and cannot
really be applied to us as beings which we perceive. So what is the connection between what we believe to be us
and what is us? Descartes would say we have experiences of what we think we are. For example, even though
our senses aren’t reliable, when we see things we still h ....
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