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I think, therefore I am.

— Rene Descartes

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The speaker points to thinking as the one certainty that survives doubt: the very act of questioning or reasoning demonstrates that someone must exist to do it. Existence is grounded not in the body or the outside world but in the mind's awareness of itself.

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