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Doubts: Doubts are uncertainties or questions about something. They can be about anything, from beliefs and values to plans and decisions. Doubts can be caused by a variety of factors, such as new information, different perspectives, or personal experiences. See also Certainty, Knowledge.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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G. E. M. Anscombe on Doubts - Dictionary of Arguments

Frank I 19
Doubt/Descartes/Anscombe: For example, when Descartes doubts whether he is Descartes, he does not question the certainty of his "Cartesian cogito"!
>cogito
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E.g. Mach, who does not recognize himself in the bus window: ("what a shabby school master"): he does not doubt that it is he who has been mistaken.
>Self-identification.

G. Elizabeth M.Anscombe (1975a): The First Person, in:
Samuel Guttenplan (ed.) (I975): Mind and Language: Wolfson College
Lectures 1974, Oxford 1975,45-65

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Anscombe I
G.E. M. Anscombe
"The First Person", in: G. E. M. Anscombe The Collected Philosophical Papers, Vol. II: "Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind", Oxford 1981, pp. 21-36
In
Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins, Manfred Frank, Frankfurt/M. 1994

Fra I
M. Frank (Hrsg.)
Analytische Theorien des Selbstbewusstseins Frankfurt 1994


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