Knowing the Words
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The Experiento: Allegations of Demolition 1: Knowing the Words
Thinking vs Experiencing
>[Joe]: for ease of reference, I use ‘Experiento’ as the proper name of
>the sentence, ‘I experience; therefore, I am’.
>Jud: NO! You overreach yourself ontologically - *to think* is an
>volitional objective act - *to experience* is a subjective state. It is
>possible to simply lie somewhere, sense the pressure of whatever it is
>that supports your body and not *think* of anything - least of all
>think that you are experiencing something.
a few days ago you wrote:
>It would make no difference whatsoever as to which existential modality
>you or Descartes chose to use in order to confirm the fact that you
>exist.
>*I think, I experience, I have a painful blister on my bottom, I
>am thirsty therefore I am, I think I am thinking therefore I am, or
>even the single first person pronoun *I am!
>Any words confirm and carry the same implicature
which is it?
does it or does it not make a difference whether one says ‘I experience;
therefore, I am’ or ‘I think; therefore, I am’ or ‘I am thirsty;
therefore, I am’ or whatever?
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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