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

23659	If someone denies that he is thinking when he is conscious of it, we can only laugh [Reid]
	Full Idea: If any man could be found so frantic as to deny that he thinks, while he is conscious of it, I may wonder, I may laugh, or I may pity him, but I cannot reason the matter with him.
	From: Thomas Reid (Essays on Intellectual Powers 6: Judgement [1785], 5)
	A reaction: An example of the influence of Descartes' Cogito running through all subsequent European philosophy. There remain the usual questions about personal identity which then arise, but Reid addresses those.