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The Female View of Descartes

Eve Browning Cole effectively demolishes Descartes.

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It gave me a tingle of pleasure to witness her doing so. His famous and elegant words, "I think, therefore I am," become less persuasive after Cole has demonstrated how he arrived at this conclusion.

It is not simply because I am a woman that the arguments of Descartes sit uncomfortably with me.

Cole has shown up a fundamental flaw in his reasoning. She has also pointed out the arrogance of his approach.

This arrogance reflects first in his isolationist method of seeking to learn the nature of "mind" vs.

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"body". His supposition that he alone can test his hypothesis without consulting others who may be equally great thinkers suggests that he alone is capable of arriving at the truth. When he does, the implication is that others must accept his own, internal perception of truth as the universal truth to be accepted by all.

His arrogance expands with his assertion, contained in the title of his work,