Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of I think, therefore I am.
Surely atoms cannot be combined in such a way to create life, much less to think. Or can they? I think; therefore, I am, indeed.
2017, Don Carswell, “An Unexpected Trip”, in Look at the Sun: A Coming-of-Middle-Age Journey, [Pennsauken, N.J.]: [BookBaby], →ISBN, page 1762 more examples
In De corpore, Hobbes brags that political science is no older than he. For him, science consists of definitions and the consequences of these definitions. As such, all the propositions of science are necessary and a priori. This is how Hobbes thinks that he avoids skepticism (not “I think; therefore, I am,” but “I define x as y; therefore, x is y”).
2012, A[loysius] P[atrick] Martinich, “Law and Self-Preservation in Leviathan: On Misunderstanding Hobbes’s Philosophy, 1650–1700”, in Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, editors, The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 46We love our minds so much in this culture. I think; therefore, I am! My opinions are super important and also witty and smart—I think I will broadcast them all over the Internet! Our minds are everything.
2015, Michelle Tea, “The Baddest Buddhist”, in How to Grow Up: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Plume, →ISBN, page 171
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