IVIV (1) Thinks He's Hallucinating

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

>>   "'Thinks he's hallucinating.'" (IV, Ch. 1, p. 1)
>
> Is she talking to us? No, Alice, silly girl, it's the way people talk.
> But, my dear Humpty, it's as if she has walked on stage and now
> provides an authorial comment on another player, in this case, Doc.
>
> And suppose he does think he's hallucinating?
>
> Suppose we change the sentence from the vernacular, add the subject
> pronoun,  so,   "HE" thinks he is hallucinating.
>
> He Thinks,  He is.
>  "He thinks, therefore He is"
> "He is thinking, therefore He exists"
>
> "Cogito, ergo sum" (Usually translated in English as: "I think,
> therefore I am", but can be less ambiguously translated as "I am
> thinking, therefore I exist" or "I am thinking, on the account of
> being"), sometimes misquoted as Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum
> (English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am"), is a
> philosophical statement in Latin used by René Descartes, which became
> a foundational element of Western philosophy. The simple meaning of
> the phrase is that if someone is wondering whether or not they exist,
> that is in and of itself proof that they do exist (because, at the
> very least, there is an "I" who is doing the thinking).
>
> (fr. WIKI)
>
> Descartes, recall, seeks in his own individual existence a truth that
> is independent of that existence. After much study and travel, He
> makes himself the object of his study. From his famous statement above
> it DOES NOT follow that YOU or ME or ALICE or anyone else exists. Each
> thinker must follow the process that Descartes went through, founded
> on his own "Cognito," in order to establish for him or her self the
> truths that Descartes established for Descartes....

Negelected to mention that mal genie myself, thanks, I personally also
read that as almost an aside to the reader.  But there are also those
subsequent moemnts where LDS isn't sure whether or not he's seen, or
said, or done, or whatever something as well.  Not only drain bamage,
but also ...