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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“And let him _Deceive_ me as much as he can, yet he can never make me _not to Be_, whilst _I think that I am”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation II, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
The first certainty: even the supposed deceiver presupposes a thinker to deceive. Molyneux's English has no single 'I think, therefore I am' sentence here.
Citation: "And let him _Deceive_ me as much as he can, yet he can never make me _not to Be_, whilst _I think that I am" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation II, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q2)
