tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post7987113574179860702..comments2023-10-28T11:12:02.164-04:00Comments on The Philosopher Mom: Ghost sex.Erika Ahernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11477804033751036631noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865004314650777465.post-65161131858638632542012-01-24T18:53:01.062-05:002012-01-24T18:53:01.062-05:00The irony is that St Augustine had already sneaked...The irony is that St Augustine had already sneaked the cogito into the De Trinitate with barely a whisper. I can't quote exactly, and I'm not going to procrastinate even more by looking up the reference, but it's in response to the skeptics who claimed no knowledge is possible even if one's own existence, he says "Against them... I have no fear, for even if I am decieved, yet I am". Descartes was actually not particularly well read, his friends pointed the plagarism out to him and there's a passage in a private letter where he recounts going to the town library in Amsterdam to verify.Kathleenhttp://asteadyinvitation.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com