The cogito
Shalom Rabbi, in your book ‘Truth and Unstable’, p. 100, you show that the assumption ‘I think’ is not necessary and therefore the rationalist miracle does not occur. What about the formulation ‘I doubt therefore I exist’? In this formulation, it seems that it is indeed impossible to doubt my existence, and hence Descartes succeeds in defending rationalism. What are you saying?
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I don’t see a difference. I doubt is itself not necessary. It’s similar to I go therefore I exist. My argument there also addresses this formulation. In other words, there are three different situations (and not just two): I doubt. I don’t doubt. I don’t exist (there is no one who doubts or doesn’t doubt). Therefore, the argument of “what do you think” does not exist here either (exactly as I wrote there regarding “I think”).
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