well,
it's the only thing that can't be doubted, which may or may not be the same thing.
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:35,
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oooh
if dogs can fly then cats can drive.
or is that a valid although not necessarily correct argument?
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:35,
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or is that a valid although not necessarily correct argument?
people have flying dreams
you never hit a light bulb
Birds have car driving dreams - slow down Mr Feathers! Fuck off I'm a bird!
/Izzard
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:38,
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Birds have car driving dreams - slow down Mr Feathers! Fuck off I'm a bird!
/Izzard
i have run out of words
so i'll concede on the grounds that i can't talk
/truly burned out
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:42,
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/truly burned out
like my geography teacher, who is a retrospective genius,
one monday afternoon, he had us last lesson, and wasn't really in the mood, so he just opened a window a little and said the room was full of words, and we couldn't fill it up with any more.
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:46,
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opening the window
freed up just enough words for him to teach us, and it worked.
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:57,
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you mean an entity which posesses the property x posesses the property x
?
how does that differ from arithmetic in terms of being defined as true only in terms of itself?
language is returning to me piece by piece
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:45,
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how does that differ from arithmetic in terms of being defined as true only in terms of itself?
language is returning to me piece by piece
no, i'm going the cartesian route
everything about the sensory world being uncertain. if you eliminate everything that can be doubted, you're left with nothing, except that something must exist to do the doubting and eliminating, and that much is certain.
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:51,
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that's aquinas, descartes just gave it a nice writeup :)
you misquoted it to the point where it becomes meaningless. seem to have got it right there though
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:52,
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descartes ended up completely bonkers.
he was living in another philosopher's shed wasn't he?
(it's been 12 years since I studied any philosophy... might be wrong...)
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Fri 23 May 2003, 23:56,
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(it's been 12 years since I studied any philosophy... might be wrong...)
he ended up dead
since the queen of sweden made him wake up at five in the morning, and he was a lazy get and it was cold in stockholm.
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