Re: ANNOUNCE: First longer sentence in S7

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> I always heard "Cogito, ergo sum", but "Cogito, sum"
> would be even nicer. I'm not a Descartes fan, first of
> all because he said animals were nothing else but
> machines (typical anthropocentrism and egotism),
"Descartes thought that he thought but his dog did not.  His
dog, however, thought otherwise!"  --Raymond Smullyan

> He also decided that
> everything should be based on evidence (maybe I make
> it a little caricatural, but it's something like
> that), which is very dubious; it is not evident at all
> that it's the Earth that's going around the Sun, and
> yet I was told it is so.
It's possible to construct a physics in which the Sun orbits the Earth
salva veritate, but it's hideously complicated.  Similarly, it's always
possible to patch up any theory ad hoc, but sometimes it's not worthwhile.

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