fkusumot on 20 January 2008
| Declan said: fkusumot said: "Descarte used the word cogito, not sentio. You don't understand the argument." That as may be, but sentience is a form of cognition. (Cognition: The mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment. [American Heritage Science Dictionary]) That said, my Latin is poor - are cognition and sentience oversimplified translations? |
Cogito is for thinking, sentio is for feeling, i.e., Descarte didn't say "I feel, therefore I am". You can make that argument yourself but that is not the argument that Descarte was making.
