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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 8
…ns, we may still inquire: Is this Cogétatur true? Yes; reply the sages; for to deny it implies thought; Negatur is only a sub-section of Cogitatur. This involves, however, an axiom that the part is of the same nature as the whole; or (at the very least) an axiom that Ais A. Now, I do not wish to deny that 4 is 4, or may occa- sionally be 4. But certainly 4 7s A is a very different statement to our original Cogitatur. The proof of Cogitatur, in short, rests not upon itself but upon the validity of our logic; and if by logic we mean (as we should…
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…e myself. II A fresh attempt. Let us look into the simplest and most certain of all possible statements. Thought exists, or if you will, Cogitatur. Descartes supposed himself to have touched bed-rock with his Cogito, ergo Sum. Huxley pointed out the complex nature of this proposition, and that it was an enthymeme with the premiss Ommes sunt, gui cogitant suppressed. He reduced it to Cogito, or, to avoid the assumption of an ego, Cogitatur. Examining more closely this statement, we may still cavil at its form. We cannot translate it into English…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…g argument that (so far as we know it) existence must mean thinking existence or spiritual existence. Here then we find our Zs¢ to imply Cogitatur,; and Berkeley’s arguments are “‘irrefragable, yet fail to produce conviction” (Hume) because the Cogitatur, as we have shown, implies Zs¢. Neither of these ideas is simple ; each involves the other. Is the division between them in our brain a proof of the total incapacity of that organ, or is there some flaw in our logic? For all depends upon our logic ; not upon the simple identity A is A only, but…