[Rationalist]

گزاره‌یِ دکارت:

میگمانم, پس میاندیشم, پس هستم.

شناختشناسانه میکوشد "هستی خویشتن" را ریشه‌‌یابی کند, ولی در ستیز با با باور بیشتر فیلسوفان پس از او, نتیجه‌گیری وی
بسختی نادرست است زیرا دکارت آن لابلا ناخودآگاهانه از اینکه "یک چیزی هست که میاندیشد" را با این جا میزند که "این من هستم که میاندیشم".

درود!

شوربختانه شما نیز عظمت فلسفه ی دکارت را درنیافته اید!
زیرا فلسفه ی او با تامل(شک) در جهان آغاز شده و پس از استنتاج آنچه خودتان گفتید، [HIGLIGHT]"یک چیزی هست که میاندیشد"[/HIGLIGHT] در ادامه، فربودی شناخت شناسی را در "وجود خویش" نمایان می سازد.
یعنی موجودی خودآگاه که هستی اش ضروریست، جهانی را دریافت می کند که کاملا فریبنده و توهم انگیز است. بر این اساس میز، اتاق، درخت، حیوانات و انسان ها تنها در ترازی تقلیل یافته تر از وجود وی جایگاهشان مشخص می شود.
او در کتاب معروفش "تاملات در فلسفه اولی" پس از اثبات اصل شناخت شناسی فلسفه اش "کوجیتو" به تبیین و توضیح تفاوت ها و ارتباط آن با دیگر ادراکات ذهنی، تصورات و تجربیات می پردازد.

[COPY] I will now consider anew what I formerly believed myself to be, before I entered on the present train of thought; and of my previous opinion I will retrench all that can in the least be invalidated by the grounds of doubt I have adduced, in order that there may at length remain nothing but what is certain and indubitable.[/COPY]

[COPY]6. But [as to myself, what can I now say that I am], since I suppose there exists an extremely powerful, and, if I may so speak, malignant being, whose whole endeavors are directed toward deceiving me ? Can I affirm that I possess any one of all those attributes of which I have lately spoken as belonging to the nature of body ? After attentively considering them in my own mind, I find none of them that can properly be said to belong to myself. To recount them were idle and tedious. Let us pass, then, to the attributes of the soul. The first mentioned were the powers of nutrition and walking; but, if it be true that I have no body, it is true likewise that I am capable neither of walking nor of being nourished. Perception is another attribute of the soul; but perception too is impossible without the body; besides, I have frequently, during sleep, believed that I perceived objects which I afterward observed I did not in reality perceive. Thinking is another attribute of the soul; and here I discover what properly belongs to myself. This alone is inseparable from me. I am—I exist: this is certain; but how often? As often as I think; for perhaps it would even happen, if I should wholly cease to think, that I should at the same time altogether cease to be. I now admit nothing that is not necessarily true. I am therefore, precisely speaking, only a thinking thing, that is, a mind (mens sive animus), understanding, or reason, terms whose signification was before unknown to me. I am, however, a real thing, and really existent; but what thing? The answer was, a thinking thing.[/COPY]


[COPY]But it is true, perhaps, that those very things which I suppose to be non-existent, because they are unknown to me, are not in truth different from myself whom I know. This is a point I cannot determine, and do not now enter into any dispute regarding it. I can only judge of things that are known to me: I am conscious that I exist, and I who know that I exist inquire into what I am. It is, however, perfectly certain that the knowledge of my existence, thus precisely taken, is not dependent on things, the existence of which is as yet unknown to me: and consequently it is not dependent on any of the things I can feign in imagination. Moreover, the phrase itself, I frame an image (effingo), reminds me of my error; for I should in truth frame one if I were to imagine myself to be anything, since to imagine is nothing more than to contemplate the figure or image of a corporeal thing; but I already know that I exist, and that it is possible at the same time that all those images, and in general all that relates to the nature of body, are merely dreams [or chimeras]. From this I discover that it is not more reasonable to say, I will excite my imagination that I may know more distinctly what I am, than to express myself as follows: I am now awake, and perceive something real; but because my perception is not sufficiently clear, I will of express purpose go to sleep that my dreams may represent to me the object of my perception with more truth and clearness. And, therefore, I know that nothing of all that I can embrace in imagination belongs to the knowledge which I have of myself, and that there is need to recall with the utmost care the mind from this mode of thinking, that it may be able to know its own nature with perfect distinctness.[/COPY]