 | Mary Whiton Calkins - Metaphysics - 1910 - 618 pages
...did not exist? Far from it; I assuredly existed, since I was persuaded." It is, indeed, impossible "that I am nothing, so long as I shall be conscious that I am something. . . . This proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time it is expressed by me or conceived... | |
 | Maire Jaanus, Maire J. Kurrik - Education - 1988 - 292 pages
...imagined deception and clings to it because consciousness in any form is an assurance against the void: Doubtless, then, I exist, since I am deceived; and,...long as I shall be conscious that I am something. (Meditations, p. 119) Greater than the dread of deception, or that of an absent God or world, is the... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1984 - 444 pages
...case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1988 - 276 pages
...case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude... | |
 | John Cottingham - Philosophy - 1992 - 460 pages
...who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude... | |
 | Stephen Voss - Electronic books - 1993 - 366 pages
...persuaded by them that I spontaneously break out in these words: let whoever can deceive me, he will still never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I think that I am something. . . . (AT VII, 36) As I argued in Descartes Against the Skeptics (93-95,... | |
 | Paul Ricœur - Philosophy - 1992 - 388 pages
...deceiver consists: "Then there is no doubt that I exist, if he deceives me. And deceive me as he will, he can never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something" (ibid.). This is indeed an existential proposition; the verb "to be" is... | |
 | Jonathan Westphal - Philosophy - 1995 - 180 pages
...there is no doubt that I exist, if he is deceiving me. And let him do his best at deception, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I shall think that I am something. Thus, after everything has been most carefully weighed, it must finally... | |
 | Michael Allen Gillespie - Philosophy - 1996 - 335 pages
...deceived by some evil genius, he undoubtedly exists. "Let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. . . . this proposition I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is... | |
 | Edward S. Reed - Psychology - 1996 - 204 pages
...person about his or her own state of consciousness: "Let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something." In short — I think, therefore I am. The evil demon who fools me into... | |
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I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that... 
