William R Ward wrote:
The only philosophy class I took in college was Logic. And there I
learned that you are wrong. "I think, therefore I am" does not imply
"I think not, therefore I am not." It does, however, imply "I am not,
therefore I think not" (and vice-versa). This is called "modus
tollens" and you can read more about it from Wikipedia, the
open-source encyclopedia:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_tollens
--Bill.
Regardless of correctness, it's kind of a downer on a thread which was
just an extended joke :-)
Cheers,
Ovid
