of thinking can therefore justify ones existence; if one thinks that he exists, then it cannot be that he does not. He thinks, therefore he is, and he is, therefore he exists. In this, Descartes concludes that at his most basic, he is ônothing but a thinking thingö (Cress, 1998, p. 65). Thought exists in him, and by virtue of this he must also exist- even if all of his thoughts are wrong. By this Descartes acknowledges that as a thing that imagines and senses, he is capable of being misled and confused. It is, however the act of imagining that justifies his being; Descartes contends that even if ôabsolutely nothing that I imagined is true, still the very power of imagining really does existàö (Cress, 1998, p. 66). Thus, the
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