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The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]
Social cryptomnesia, a failure by people and society in general to remember the origin of a change, in which people know that a change has occurred in society, but forget how this change occurred; that is, the steps that were taken to bring this change about, and who took these steps. This has led to reduced social credit towards the minorities ...
Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is – for he knows nothing, and thinks he knows. I neither know nor think I know. [Benjamin Jowett translation]. Regardless, the context in which this passage occurs is the same, independently of any specific translation.
I don't think he would say yes. I think it's one of the things that distinguishes him from a lot of other athletes and people. He's still very much on a journey.”
Solipsism (/ ˈ s ɒ l ɪ p s ɪ z əm / ⓘ SOLL-ip-siz-əm; from Latin solus 'alone' and ipse 'self') [1] is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind.
3. Prince. Like many people on this list, Prince made up for not being able to read sheet music by having an unusually good ear for melody and an intuitive sense of what chord should go where. He ...
When Chris Rock started his monologue, the comedian sounded out of breath, as if he'd run up flights of stairs at 30 Rock to get to the stage.
Occam's razor has met some opposition from people who consider it too extreme or rash. Walter Chatton ( c. 1290–1343 ) was a contemporary of William of Ockham who took exception to Occam's razor and Ockham's use of it.