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Derek Parfit
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One of the most famous mottos in philosophy is Descartes' "I think, therefore I am." This sums up the conclusion that Descartes comes to at the end of the second Meditation. Descartes has been searching for a truth that can't be rationally doubted and that he can use to climb out of the well of skepticism that he has dug in the First Meditation. He decides that one thing he cannot doubt is that he exists, because even in the act of doubting, he is doing the doubting.
Derek Parfit in effect denies Descartes's conclusion. He would insist that the conclusion is not nearly as innocent and straightforward as it seems. When Descartes says that he exists, he means that there is a continuing subject of experiences or self or ego, or whatever
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