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Originally Posted by Play_Dough  Descartes famous quotation "I think, therefore I am", interpreted from a metaphysical point-of-view, means that Descartes 'came into being' because of thinking. |
I disagree. This statement does not have any ontogenic content. It describes a snapshot of the present, not how he got there. All he was trying to say with that pithy conclusion of his was that the fact that he was thinking was the
only thing he could be completely sure of. And the only way he could know that he existed at all was to have something which he could not doubt.