Re: What 'NSA'?

Stephan Neuhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

]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", 

"shades of" does not mean "same as". He is thinking of an extention. "I
deny myself, therefor 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.

Which are what? Solipsism is an unassailable position on logical
grounds. It is on intuitionist grounds that it has has problems.

]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.
No, but to deny ones own existence is to think, and to think is to
exist.