Is René Descartes's reasoning wrong?

Descarte is perhaps best known for, 'Cogito ergo sum'. It means, I think, therfore I am. You can doubt anything that whether it is real or unreal but you cannot doubt that you are doubting. Hence you exists because you can think. read more

There are a couple important points in his reasoning: first, that exactly what “I” means is not specified, and this is fundamentally unclear; second, one should beware that the structure of language not make a conclusion seem more obvious than it actually is. read more

René Descartes (right) with Queen Christina of Sweden (left) The rear of the "von der Lindeska huset" on Västerlånggatan 68 By 1649, Descartes had become famous throughout Europe for being one of the continent's greatest philosophers and scientists. read more