Putting Descartes Before the Horse

by Dave Berg


1 Come to think about it, how do I know anything? Is everything really as it seems to be? How do I know I'm actually me? Maybe I'm just a bad dream somebody is having.	2 This guy Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” Here I am thinking, but am I? Or do I just think I'm thinking.

3 Oh, Kenny, are you in your room?	4 How should I know?

SOURCE: MAD's Dave Berg Looks at Modern Thinking, written and illustrated by Dave Berg, edited by Albert B. Feldstein, foreword by Jerry De Fuccio (New York: New American Library, 1969), pp. 122-125.

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