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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 19:28
Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> 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.
I'm sure it's just another Whorfian lock, but I am no more able to imagine thinking without something which thinks than existence without something which exists, or blue without something which is blue. Andreas

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