title: CARTESIAN “I THINK, THEREFORE, I AM” IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF LOGIC AND PHENOMENOLOGY
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metadata.value: SLININ, YAROSLAV
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-07-07T12:33:41Z
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metadata.value: 2022-07-07T12:33:41Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: SLININ Ya. CARTESIAN “I THINK, THEREFORE, I AM” IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF LOGIC AND PHENOMENOLOGY. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2022, vol. 11 issue 1, pp. 27–39.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2022-11-27-39
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37076
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metadata.value: In this article the questions under discussion are the properties of Descartes’s application of the first
  rule of his method, which requires not to agree with anything that could give rise to doubt. It is well
  known that Descartes came to the conclusion that only the truth “I think, therefore I am” is undoubted.
  The article examines the logical status of this truth and reveals that it is an entimeme where the major
  premise is unstated. An analysis of Descartes’s works shows that the premise that he does not explicitly
  express is the proposition “If I think, therefore I exist, and if I do not think, then I do not exist.”
  It follows that Descartes’ complete syllogism would be like this: “I exist if and only if I think; I think;
  therefore, I exist.” In this paper, the discussion focuses on the proof of the certainty of the position
  “I exist,” proposed by St Augustin in his treatise The City of God. St Augustin proves the proposition
  “I am deceived that I exist” to be false in every possible interpretation. Hence the position “I exist” is
  true in every possible interpretation. According to Descartes, the only undoubted statements are those
  that are kept within the limits of “I think,” or within the limits of inner experience, while the data of
  external experience are always dubious. Thus, the statement “I walk” is not obvious, since it can only
  seem to me that I am walking. At the same time, the judgment “It seems to me that I walk” is undoubtedly.
  Ancient sceptics also believed that the data of internal experience are doubtless, and the data of
  external experience are not due to the fact that all objects of the external world are in fact not what they
  seem to be. However, there is a significant difference between the ancient sceptical approach and that of
  Descartes. I put forward the view that the ancient sceptics, although they are convinced that the things
  of the external world are not what they seem, still surely believe that each item in that world exists. But
  Descartes surpassed both ancient sceptics and academics in their scepticism, since he doubted the very
  existence of the external world. He was able to imagine that he exists exclusively as a thinking entity
  with no body, no world around him, and no space to store that world. It is by the fact that Descartes
  doubts the existence of the external world that he has cleared the way for transcendental philosophy
  and phenomenology.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Descartes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: logic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: method
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saint Augustine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: external experience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: internal experience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: radical skepticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: CARTESIAN “I THINK, THEREFORE, I AM” IN THE PERSPECTIVES OF LOGIC AND PHENOMENOLOGY
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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