Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:10:11 +1100 (EST)
From: c.holmes-AT-nepean.uws.edu.au (colin holmes)
Subject: Cogito ergo something!



Ken wrote:

>I think therefore I am.
>
>If I stop thinking I will cease to exist.
>
>Is this not the madness of the Enlightenment?



Ken,


As a matter of basic logic, the proposition:  "I think therefore I am"

does not entail the proposition: "I am not thinking therefore I do not exist"


Colin,
Western Sydney