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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

21862	Consciousness is based on 'I can', not on 'I think' [Merleau-Ponty]
	Full Idea: Consciousness is in the first place not a matter of 'I think' but of 'I can'.
	From: Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception [1945], p.159), quoted by Beth Lord - Spinoza's Ethics 2 'Sensation'
	A reaction: The point here (quoted during a discussion of Spinoza) is that you can't leave out the role of the body, which seems correct.