Cogito Ergo Sum Analysis
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A reconstruction of the famous argument from Descartes.
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Claim
It is not possible for an evil being of supreme power to convince me that I am thinking when it is false that I am thinking
Consequences
If it is true that...
For any proposition P, if it is not possible for an evil being of supreme power to convince me of P when P is false, then I cannot rationally doubt P
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It is not possible for an evil being of supreme power to convince me that I am thinking when it is false that I am thinking
Then it must be true that...
I cannot rationally doubt that I am thinking