DUBITO COGITO ERGO SUM

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DUBITO COGITO ERGO SUM

From Wiki on Descartes.

> Skepticism[edit]
>
> Many philosophical skeptics and particularly radical skeptics would
> say that indubitable knowledge does not exist, is impossible, or has not
> been found yet, and would apply this criticism to the assertion that the
> "cogito" is beyond doubt.

This is of course nuts.

Certainty that certainty is impossible or does not exist is absurd.

Certainly.

Uncertainty exists.

Certainly.

Certainty is different than uncertainty.

Certainly.

A nothing could not wonder if it was a nothing or something.

I doubt I am, therefore I am.

It seems to be fashionable amongst the intellectually effete, to
claim that "I doubt everything."

One then asks them, do you doubt that?

They will answer yes. Which of course means maybe they do not
doubt everything. Certainly. So the issue then is to spot those
possible perfect certainties, and determine 'how would I know if they
were perfect certainties,' precious and few that they are.

But they will say that doubting everything, including doubting
whether they doubt everything, is at least consistent. Are they
certain?

Be that as it may, illogical consistency is not a mental virtue and
ends up in death and disaster if applied to actual existence which
certainly is.

In the end such arguments pretend to say something deep, everything
is doubtable, but in the end merely state self denying propositions,
like "this statement is false."

If I say "All dogs are animals, Joey is a dog, but Joey is not an
animal," then what have I said? Nothing. No information or knowledge
is conveyed. CERTAINLY.

Logic is King, logic is the ethics of language. A mind that lives
with self denying propositions is a mind that does not work and is not
in contact with actuality which is as it is and isn't as it isn't.

It is the certainly perceived nature of personal agency and
existence and perception of conscious color form around us that GIVES us
the idea of what IS means and a complete description of it, because the
first quality of consciousness is that it IS. That description of IS
that we perceive in our conscious isness, is:

IS means IS
IS does not mean IS NOT
IS NOT means IS NOT
IS NOT does not mean IS

Or put another way

IS is IS
IS is not IS NOT
IS NOT is IS NOT
IS NOT is not IS

Only true actual existences follow the above rules, and
consciousness and self awareness is one of those actual existences.

Certainty of OTHER consciousnesses other than our own is frought as
other's consciousness can not be directly perceived as we can directly
perceive our own consciousness.

Any knowledge learned by indirect perception is merely a theory
based on evidence and model.

Indirect perception means learning about A by looking at B under
the assumption that B is causally related to A and therefore may
theoretically convey some data about A if one studies B enough.

For more on Learning, Certainty, Causality and Consciousness, see

The Proof at http://www.lightlink.com/theproof

Homer

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Learning implies Learning with Certainty or Learning without Certainty.
Learning across a Distance implies Learning by Being an Effect.
Learning by Being an Effect implies Learning without Certainty.
Therefore, Learning with Certainty implies Learning but
Not by Being an Effect, and not across a Distance.

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