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Small Gods · 1992
“That’s right,” he said. “We’re philosophers. We think, therefore we am.”
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The declaration borrows the familiar link between thinking and existence, then stumbles over its plural form. “We am” undermines the confident announcement that these speakers are philosophers. The joke lets an elementary grammatical mismatch puncture the dignity of an otherwise grand-sounding claim.
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