Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers … - Tom Holt

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There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Tom Holt

Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic and Lauterbrunnen, and now reads, in the Shorter Harvard Orthodoxy: (a) I think, therefore I am; or (b) Perhaps I thought, therefore I was; but (c) These days, I tend to leave that side of things to my wife.

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