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Ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Meditations' and 'The Good State'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / d. Cause of beliefs
20190 Belief is not an intellectual state or act, because propositions are affirmed or denied by the will [Descartes, by Zagzebski]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
1585 Descartes tried to model reason on maths instead of 'logos' [Roochnik on Descartes]
1582 Labelling slightly doubtful things as false is irrational [Roochnik on Descartes]
2256 Maybe there is only one certain fact, which is that nothing is certain [Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito
6914 Descartes transformed 'God is thinkable, so he exists' into 'I think, so I exist' [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
4641 In the Meditations version of the Cogito he says "I am; I exist", which avoids presenting it as an argument [Descartes, by Baggini /Fosl]
6929 Modern philosophy set the self-conscious ego in place of God [Descartes, by Feuerbach]
3849 "I think therefore I am" is the absolute truth of consciousness [Sartre on Descartes]
2258 I must even exist if I am being deceived by something [Descartes]
2259 "I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind [Descartes]
3160 The Cogito is a transcendental argument, not a piece of a priori knowledge [Rey on Descartes]
2260 If I don't think, there is no reason to think that I exist [Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique
1117 The Cogito proves subjective experience is basic, but makes false claims about the Self [Russell on Descartes]
2873 Maybe 'I' am not the thinker, but something produced by thought [Nietzsche on Descartes]
3623 The Cogito only works if you already understand what thought and existence are [Mersenne on Descartes]
1369 It is a precondition of the use of the word 'I' that I exist [Ayer on Descartes]
5360 The thing which experiences may be momentary, and change with the next experience [Russell on Descartes]
2870 'I think' assumes I exist, that thinking is known and caused, and that I am doing it [Nietzsche on Descartes]
5188 A thought doesn't imply other thoughts, or enough thoughts to make up a self [Ayer on Descartes]
3624 That I perform an activity (thinking) doesn't prove what type of thing I am [Hobbes on Descartes]
3120 Autistic children seem to use the 'I' concept without seeing themselves as thinkers [Segal on Descartes]
4526 The Cogito assumes a priori the existence of substance, when actually it is a grammatical custom [Nietzsche on Descartes]
5579 How can we infer that all thinking involves self-consciousness, just from my own case? [Kant on Descartes]
5580 My self is not an inference from 'I think', but a presupposition of it [Kant on Descartes]
5587 We cannot give any information a priori about the nature of the 'thing that thinks' [Kant on Descartes]
5588 The fact that I am a subject is not enough evidence to show that I am a substantial object [Kant on Descartes]
13923 Descartes' claim to know his existence before his essence is misleading or absurd [Descartes, by Lowe]
6930 Modern self-consciousness is a doubtful abstraction; only senses and feelings are certain [Feuerbach on Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
2261 My perceiving of things may be false, but my seeming to perceive them cannot be false [Descartes]
11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 4. Solipsism
2257 I myself could be the author of all these self-delusions [Descartes]