Re: What 'NSA'?

Stephan Neuhaus wrote:

> Mailman wrote:
>> Not to put too fine a point on it, but this goes into epystemological
>> realms: how would anyone (organisation or person) deny its own existence?
>> Shades of Descartes - who was it again that did the denying?
> 
> Not Descartes.  His most famous quote, "I think, therefore I am",
> clearly shows that he was convinced of his own existence.  He denied
> that it could be proved that anything (except God) else existed, though.
>   That is called solipsism and has a number of logical flaws.
> 
> So, whoever was stupid enough to deny his own existence (after all, if I
> don't exist, who is denying it?), it wasn't Descartes.
> 
> Fun,
> 
> Stephan

I just applied logic to Descartes' sollipsism. If I am convinced of my own
existence and suspect that nothing else exists then what happens when I
deny my own existence? Do I vanish? Does the NSA vanish? Or perhaps the
Universe?

This is a sad example of trying to apply logic to an alogical (I mean that)
position, but rather consistent in itself. Like you said - fun. Whoever
took it seriously should hide in some dark corner and be ashamed for at
least one minute.
-- 
Mailman


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