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THINK AGAIN.

The New Yorker

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In "The Chain," a chirpy British film comedy from 1984 about moving house, the foreman of a team of movers is taking evening classes in philosophy, and is prone to metaphysical musings while lugging heavy pieces of furniture. On the way to his first job of the day, he recites what he has learned to his workmates: "What Descartes is saying is 'I think, therefore I am.' ''

"Am what?" someone asks.

"Just am."

"Can't just be am. You gotta be am something."

In fact, what Descartes wrote in his "Discours de la Methode," of 1637, "Je pense, donc je suis" (the Latin rendering, "Cogito, ergo sum," came later), was always a slightly cryptic ...

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