Re: Why the heck did I wait so long to try this?

Bob Terwilliger wrote:
Damsel wrote:


Carol, trying to figure the French thing out

It all goes back to René Descartes: He was the French philosopher who made his most famous philosophical statement ("Cogito ergo sum") in Latin. The statement translates as, "I think, therefore I am." Descartes had set out to come up with a statement which could not possibly be doubted: You can have ironclad certainty in your own existence, because if you doubt your existence, then something must be doing the doubting, which means that you are that something.

Why did Descartes express his statement in Latin? Because Descartes was French, of course. And he was a THINKER. He was a FRENCH THINKER.

Therefore, sf is not French.

Bob


Um, thanks for clearing that up, I think....

gloria p
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