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In a 1947 Oxford seminar, Ludwig Wittgenstein (“VIT-gen-shtyne”) responded to a presentation on this statement by claiming a man who infers its conclusion from the fact that it is raining is talking nonsense. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this statement, whose most common formulation appeared in Discourse on the Method.
ANSWER: “I think, therefore I am” [or “Cogito, ergo sum” or the Cogito or “je pense, donc je suis”]
[10e] This French philosopher used the statement “I think, therefore I am” to demonstrate his own existence as part of his skeptical method of doubt.
ANSWER: René Descartes (“day-CART”) [or Renatus Cartesius]
[10h] In On Certainty, Wittgenstein held that we should instead doubt “on specific grounds” in response to both the skepticism of Descartes and the realism of this philosopher. This author of Principia Ethica attempted to demonstrate the existence of an external world with an argument beginning “here is one hand.”
ANSWER: G.E. Moore [or George Edward Moore]
<Philosophy — Joel Miles> | SHOW-ME Four Packet 6

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