it isn't "cogitatio, ergo existentia"
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"I think, therefore I am" is entirely different from "thought, therefore existence". that's how sneaky Latin is, the first person in "cogito, ergo sum" is invisible but it's there and it'll getcha
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one considers that which you regard as "I" to exist, which is always a catastrophic error
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that's how fast it leads you down the garden path: you've already presupposed the existence of things a thing isn't making the statement because there are no things, a process is making the statement
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enh, i guess, but that crosses the line i think exists where we've overloaded a common usage term too strongly to be useful for philosophy because people's implicit associations will distort their usage no matter how hard they try to employ the jargonized meaning
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oh, i meant the other "exist"
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ah, you finally found the correct response to the original challenge: Platonism
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solipsism is contingent on the existence of the self, though, so it seems like a subordinate catastrophe
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Mind body dualism. IDK if that falls under the same category. Really fuck Descartes so bad. Manages to be a Crypto Atheist and a Crypto Diest at the same time.
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If you follow his philosophy as a religious person, you'll find all spirituality reduced to soul-less materialism. If you follow his philosophy as an atheist, the end state of all existence becomes solipsism where you are the only being that can possibly exist.
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