Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaTHOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO
René Descartes’ Cogito is an example of a paradigmatic thought experiment, herald of both subjectivism and new science in Europe’s Modern Age, that seems to have escaped the attention of thought experiment philosophers. On deep analysis, the Cogito appears as universal instantiation (or modus ponens...
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Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências
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| description | René Descartes’ Cogito is an example of a paradigmatic thought experiment, herald of both subjectivism and new science in Europe’s Modern Age, that seems to have escaped the attention of thought experiment philosophers. On deep analysis, the Cogito appears as universal instantiation (or modus ponens with implicit major ‘whatever has the property of thinking, exists’). The Cogito has strong rhetorical effects for it narratively generalizes from I to all human kind, and its historical and philosophical success can be explained from its concise enthymematic structure that rings true in many possible senses. We consider it a preeminent example of a thought experiment as it states the power of thinking as its very contents. From Descartes’ methodology of doubt we can conclude that, e.g., on a Wittgensteinian interpretation, the Cogito is a logical thought experiment rather than a psychological one. |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO735572022-03-21T18:07:31Z THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO HERTOGB, C. P. René Descartes Cogito (ergo sum) Thought experiment Modus ponens Universal instantiation Semantics Doubt Ludwig Wittgenstein René Descartes’ Cogito is an example of a paradigmatic thought experiment, herald of both subjectivism and new science in Europe’s Modern Age, that seems to have escaped the attention of thought experiment philosophers. On deep analysis, the Cogito appears as universal instantiation (or modus ponens with implicit major ‘whatever has the property of thinking, exists’). The Cogito has strong rhetorical effects for it narratively generalizes from I to all human kind, and its historical and philosophical success can be explained from its concise enthymematic structure that rings true in many possible senses. We consider it a preeminent example of a thought experiment as it states the power of thinking as its very contents. From Descartes’ methodology of doubt we can conclude that, e.g., on a Wittgensteinian interpretation, the Cogito is a logical thought experiment rather than a psychological one. 2016-10-03 2022-03-21T18:07:31Z 2022-03-21T18:07:31Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/6328 10.1590/S0101-31732016000300002 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/73557 por https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/6328/4186 Copyright (c) 2016 TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 39 No. 3: July-September/2016 TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO: Revista de Filosofia; v. 39 n. 3: Julho-Setembro/2016 1980-539X 0101-3173 |
| spellingShingle | René Descartes Cogito (ergo sum) Thought experiment Modus ponens Universal instantiation Semantics Doubt Ludwig Wittgenstein HERTOGB, C. P. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title | THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title_full | THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title_fullStr | THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title_full_unstemmed | THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title_short | THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ANALYSES OF RENÉ DESCARTES’ COGITO |
| title_sort | thought experiment analyses of rené descartes’ cogito |
| topic | René Descartes Cogito (ergo sum) Thought experiment Modus ponens Universal instantiation Semantics Doubt Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| url | https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/6328 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/73557 |