An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Your existence is certain each time you think it, and only then. It isn’t a fact you can store away and stop checking. Critics since the late 1700s have asked whether this shows there is an I at all, or only that thinking is going on.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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