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Ahem. Suppose you want to create a philosophical world view out of thin air, by formal reasoning from indisputable truths. Is any "truth" indisputable.pipsqueak said:I'm just musing "aloud" at this point, so don't think I'm a philosopher or something. I never did understand that thing..."I think, therefore I am....."
Well, suppose that I doubt everything. God does not exist, the world that I see around me does not really exist, everything is illusion. If I doubt the existence of everything, is there anything at all that I can say exists for sure?
Yes. Me!
If I doubt the existence of everything, then there must exist someone who is doing the doubting (me). From this beginning Descarte was able to deduce (so he imagined) the existence of other things, such as the external world, God, etc.
"I think I think, therefore I think I am. I think."
Mathman
PS. I don't suppose there are any political entities on Antarctica with sufficient autonomy that they could qualify for membership in the ISU?