- Mini Quiz. Which philosopher wrote "I think therefore I am"? 1. Jean Jacques Rousseau 2. Bertrand Russell 3. Rene DesCartes 4. None of them.
- Mini Quiz time. Which of these philosophers was a British Empiricist: 1. David Hume 2. Voltaire 3. John Locke 4. Bishop Berkeley 5. 1, 3 & 4
ANSWER: Quiz 1. 5.
ANSWER: Quiz 2. Is in fact 4. None of them.
"I think, therefore I am" is never directly stated as such in Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method. In his 2nd Meditations: "So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." Neither "therefore" nor "I think" appear in the Meditations.
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