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    It is not the case that Descartes' cogito establishes that the self is known immediately through thinking, prior to any analysis of bodily or mental parts.

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    • 1.The cogito only establishes that thinking occurs, not necessarily that a unified, coherent 'self' persists through it.
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    • 2.Thinking itself may depend on bodily processes (neurological, sensory); claiming priority to body presupposes a false independence.
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    • 3.The cogito's apparent immediacy masks hidden conceptual work: language, logical inference, and prior assumptions about identity.
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    • 1.Thinking is the one activity we cannot doubt without self-contradiction, making it foundational to all knowledge claims.
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    • 2.The act of thinking itself immediately reveals an 'I' doing the thinking, requiring no prior inference or analysis.
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    • 3.Bodily and mental parts are composite and require division into components; the thinking subject is given as unified whole.
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