On Tuesday, Dec 7, Daniel Davies said:
> It always used to be Descartes with us .... I remember the tutorials
> fondly ...
> "But is it really self-contradictory, Dr. Strawson? I mean, I could
> say right now "I doubt that I am thinking""
> "I've been doubting that since the start of the course, Davies"
I'm curious. Once the joking was done, what did Strawson say? That when Descartes said "thinking" he meant "all mental operations," and that one couldn't say one doubted one was having mental operations without self-contradiction? Or did he have his own peculiar Strawsonian spin?
Michael
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