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The example were meant to state that, being the cogito informative, it is not a mere tautology. But what you say is true, for individual identity is what reveals existence as an evidence, at the same time rational as an identity can be, and ineffable as existence can be.

Once upon a time...people knew of a morning star, the brightest, and they called it Phosphorus, the light bringer. There was another star that appeared in the evening, which was called Esperus. It came out, I don't know exactly when, maybe in the seventh century B.C., that the two stars were the...

When coming to the personal context, things get a bit...uncertain. Descartes had an insane relation with the church, expecially with the jesuits. So while elaborating a scientific method on Galilei's line, at the same time he always searched the jesuits approval as his intellectual counterpart...

Yes, True, False and Indeterminate are the values of Neutrosophic logic. I was reading some of the papers available on line, but I didn't go on...it doesn't sound like the revolutionary logic I'm looking for, rather an interesting all-including one. Some of the papers on neutrosophy have good...

I think therefore I am. It must be read in its context. And the Meditatins suggest that what Descartes is talking about is not the thinking process, but the intuition of the "I", which is what one cannot doubt about. Therefore, one can conclude that he exists. Remember that the way we use the...

I'm not so sure that fuzzy logics and neutrosophy are not in the very same line of aristotelic logic. They just extend it to more truth values and so reject certain rules of inference but the whole concept is the old one. They are useful but to a very limited extent. As for your synopsis of...

Well, Zeno has become the founder of dialectic exactly to defend the views of Parmenides.