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Re: CHAT Cartesian parataxis (was: ANNOUNCE: First longer sentence in S7)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 18:32
Ray Brown scripsit:

> >"Cogito [ergo] sum" is simply a statement > >that it is safe to assume that you exist; otherwise, who would be doing > >the observing? > > Yes, seems fair enough to me.
It's really a Whorfian mind-lock based on subject-object metaphysics, though (and small blame to Descartes for that); Buddhist metaphysics has no problem with thinking-without-a-thinker, any more than observing-without-an-observer. From the Buddhist viewpoint, Descartes's illegitimate move is when he extends a bare process-of-thinking into something with a personal ego. -- A poetical purist named Cowan [that's me: jcowan@reutershealth.com] Once put the rest of us dowan. [on xml-dev] "Your verse would be sweeter http://www.ccil.org/~cowan If it only had metre http://www.reutershealth.com And rhymes that didn't force me to frowan." [overpacked line!] --Michael Kay

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