“What Descartes is saying is ‘I think, therefore I am.’ ’’The New Yorker asks, what did Descartes really know?
“Am what?” someone asks.
“Just am.”
“Can’t just be am. You gotta be am something.”
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He begged their pardon, but he had forgotten his gloves, and instantly crossing the room to the writing table, he drew out a letter from under the scattered paper, placed it before Anne with eyes of glowing entreaty fixed on her for a time, and hastily collecting his gloves, was again out of the room, almost before Mrs. Musgrove was aware of his being in it: the work of an instant! ~ Jane Austen, Persuasion
“What Descartes is saying is ‘I think, therefore I am.’ ’’The New Yorker asks, what did Descartes really know?
“Am what?” someone asks.
“Just am.”
“Can’t just be am. You gotta be am something.”
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