What is your special snowflake talent?u have no special talent whereas i do and its easy for me to recognise it in others.as i said before give up on this bullshit.you wont get anywhere.
can anyone sum up what was this bhenchod talking about?
Yes, Descartes could have been mistaken. This is not just because you cannot prove that logic works or not.
One can pinpoint a flaw in Descartes’s logic.
Let me put myself in Descartes’s shoes for a moment.
As I see and observe all my surroundings, I can think that all of them can be a product of my mind’s imagination. The trees, the animals, the people around me. I can doubt the existence of them all. For after all, all I can do is observe my own mind.
My thought is limited to the boundaries of my mind.
And yet, is there anything in the world I can be sure of? I will try and arrive at a statement which I can be sure of by doubting all that there is in this world.
Does the tree exist? I can doubt that. My mind could have made it up as an illusion. It is certainly within the realm of possibility, and hence can be doubted.
So can the existence of other things around me.
What about my own senses(sight, hearing, taste, smell etc.)? Surely the mind could have made them up as well. Again, my thought is limited to the boundaries of my own mind.
But, what about thought? Can I doubt my own thought?
Here I can make a claim that even if I doubt my own thought, then doubt also is thought, therefore thought must be.
But, how do I know that doubt is thought? By observing my own mind or by observing my own thought.
I began with a process of doubting everything. So I will doubt everything.
I can also doubt my own observation. As I begin to doubt my own observation, I now cannot say anything for certain. But this is a point of minimum doubt. This is because, I have least doubt on my own observation of my mind. But, still there is doubt.
“I think”, is not completely certain, it has that minimum amount of doubt left.
Hence I can make the statement: “ I think, therefore I must be”.
Why do I say must? Because must reflects that small amount of doubt leftover. I am almost certain of myself thinking, but doubting my own observation puts even that beyond absolute certainty.