caa a22 4500 386365199 CHVBK 20180307111930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0012217300015614 doi S0012217300015614 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0012217300015614 McLure Roger University of Keele True to the Facts: A Sartrean Version [Elektronische Daten] [Roger McLure] In constructing the concept of truth I believe to be implicit in Sartre's philosophy, I shall inevitably make glancing contact with differences between his and Descartes' understanding of the cogito—their common foundational truth. This family quarrel will, however, remain peripheral to my discussion of what I take to be the core claim of any cogito-argument: that my existence is certain insofar as it results from my thinking. Beyond that, nothing is certain about what Descartes meant by the certainty of the cogito, or about what could reasonably be meant by it. His express inconsistencies in characterizing the (now inferential, now intuitive, even performative) force of his cogito-argument are well known, as are the various incompatible, textually more or less defensible, construals of generations of his interpreters. Unsurprisingly, then, the problem of truth for those of his followers, including Sartre, who have not been content to accept cogito, ergo sum as an unanalyzable datum, has tended to centre on proposing more intellectually transparent readings of their ancestor's seemingly inscrutable ergo. Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1989 Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/1(1989), 91-106 0012-2173 28:1<91 1989 28 DIA https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015614 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015614 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McLure Roger University of Keele NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dialogue Cambridge University Press 28/1(1989), 91-106 0012-2173 28:1<91 1989 28 DIA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge