From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 29 16:22:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from kwanon.research.canon.com.au (kwanon.research.canon.com.au [203.12.172.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EC3437BD31 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 16:22:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iain@research.canon.com.au) Received: (qmail 26218 invoked from network); 29 May 2000 23:22:13 -0000 Received: from bellmann.research.canon.com.au (203.12.175.190) by kwanon-heat.research.canon.com.au with SMTP; 29 May 2000 23:22:13 -0000 Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [203.12.174.253]) by bellmann.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A4F8B10; Tue, 30 May 2000 09:21:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from elph.research.canon.com.au (elph.research.canon.com.au [10.2.0.253]) by elph.research.canon.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65133C97B; Tue, 30 May 2000 09:22:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 09:22:09 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Descartes In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000529143533.008f8aa0@mail85.pair.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 29 May 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > At 19:41 29-05-2000 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >"Cogito ergo cogito ergo sum" as one of the fortunes claims with > >little regard to latin grammer. > > What's wrong with its Latin grammar? It does not make much sense ("I think, > therefore I think, therefore I am"), but it is grammatically correct. > > More meaningful phrases might include "Cogito me cogitare ergo sum" ("I > think that I think, therefore I am"), or perhaps "Cogito ergo cogito me > esse" ("I think, therefore I think that I am"). > > That said, I disagree with old Rene D., anyway. He should have just claimed > "Cogito me esse" - "I think that I am." One could never argue with that. :) > All the others are arguable. > Well, what would "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." be? (Which unless I'm mistaken was what the fortune was supposed to say). Cogito me cogitare ergo cogito sum? Iain To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message