The principle ‘I think therefore I am’ makes consciousness more reliable than matter and one’s thinking (for oneself) more reliable than other people’s thinking. Although there is a tendency towards subjectivity in this position, Descartes came to a firm truth: the existence of the ‘I’ was proved by inference from the fact that ‘I think.’
Why is “I think therefore I am” the only point of certainty?
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