From Part Four of the Discourse on Methods (p. 21 of the Lafleur translation):
On the other hand, if I had ceased to think while all the rest of what I had ever imagined remained true, I would have no reason to believe that I existed: therefore I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature was only to think, and which, to exist, has no need of space or any material thing. Thus it follows that this ego, this soul, by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from the body and is easier to know than the latter, and that even if the body were not, the soul would not cease to be all that it now is.
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How about a substance that does not think? Does it cease to exist as well since it doesn't think?
Descartes was obviously looking from a human viewpoint.
One can also revisit the sound from a falling tree when no one is listening. Is there or isn't there a sound?
All I can say is, mind over matter.
Cogito Ergo Sum -
Of which the socio constructivists and the like would argue against. Thanks for sharing YOUR projected thoughts.
Descartes cheated and by this I mean that he did not list all of his axioms. Also, he believed that axioms were self - evident truths when they were really just facile and fundamentally doubtful assumptions.
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