User:Ergo Sum
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Welcome to my user page. Should you care to know, my interests and contributions are fairly eclectic. I enjoy law and philosophy, and am a big history buff. I do my best to make no mistakes, but as a human, I am fallible. If you believe I have acted in error or just want to say hello, feel free to stop by my talk page. Insofar as one may generalize, I am both an inclusionist and an incrementalist, but there are certainly exceptions to both.
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The name "Ergo Sum" derives from the famous proposition by French philosopher René Descartes, "cogito, ergo sum," which translates from the Latin as "I think, therefore I am." This statement was the conclusion of his argument for the proof of the existence of the self as a thinking being, thereby ameliorating the problem of philosophical skepticism (although Descartes himself treated this problem only as methodological skepticism). The immense power of this simple statement permits the existence of knowledge and validates the epistemic endeavor. While innumerable philosophers went on to challenge various aspects of this argument, the Cartesian impact is still pervasive throughout the field of philosophy today.
The next question you might rightly ask is, "what does this have to do with Wikipedia?" Right. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is (ideally) a repository of human knowledge, which is to say, it contains all of and only that which is true. The veracity of a postulation may be tested empirically or metaphysically (the latter being logically necessary due to Hume's problem of induction), but all inquiries rest on the presupposition that the acquisition of knowledge is, in fact, possible. As such, the organization of inquiry into a methodological study of knowledge, epistemology, is forever indebted to Descartes.
It should be noted that Descartes is not alone in deserving laudation by those who cherish the rigorous and systematic study of reality, which, if not the definition, is at least the essence of philosophy.
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Articles created
[edit]The following are articles and other pages I've created, with a few that I've primarily contributed to but not created:
Articles
[edit]- 1732 Irpinia earthquake
- Adam Marshall (priest)
- Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel RMS Titanic
- Alessandro Piazza
- Alphonsus J. Donlon
- Andrea L. Thompson
- Andrea Mugione
- Angelo De Donatis
- Antonio Bagnoli
- Anthony Caffry
- Anthony F. Ciampi
- Antonio De Luca (bishop)
- Antonio Forte
- Arthur A. O'Leary
- Basilica of Sant'Alessandro
- Bernard A. Maguire
- Blessed Sacrament Church (New Rochelle, New York)
- Board of Trustees of Scarsdale v. McCreary
- Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital
- Charles H. Stonestreet
- Charles L. Brieant, Jr. Federal Building and Courthouse
- Charles W. Lyons
- Christopher Celenza
- Church of San Girolamo
- Church of Santa Maria Avvocata
- Church of Santa Maria Primerana
- Church of St. Joseph (Bronxville, New York)
- Church of the Gesú (Philadelphia)
- Church of the Holy Family (New Rochelle, New York)
- Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scarsdale, New York)
- Church of the Resurrection (Rye, New York)
- Church of St. Augustine (Larchmont, New York)
- Cristoforo Domenico Carullo
- Cornelius Gillespie
- Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart
- David Hillhouse Buel (priest)
- David Hillhouse Buel (soldier)
- District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
- Doug Fears
- Edmund Ryan
- Edward A. McGurk
- Edward Henchy
- Edward V. Boursaud
- Enoch Fenwick
- Edward D. Boone
- Edward I. Devitt
- Diocesan Seminary of Fiesole
- Episcopal Palace, Fiesole
- Father Demo Square
- Farmers and Mechanics Bank (Georgetown)
- Felice Accrocca
- Felix Genn
- Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano
- Francesco Alfano
- Francesco Marino
- Francis Dzierozynski
- Francis X. Brady
- Holy Trinity Church (Philadelphia)
- Robert J. Fulton
- Robert W. Brady
- Francis X. Talbot
- Franciszek Zglenicki
- Franco Agostinelli
- Fordham University Cemetery
- Gallipoli Cathedral
- Gaston Hall
- Gastone Mojaisky Perrelli
- Gene Brucker
- Georgetown Car Barn
- Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service
- Georgetown University Center for Latin American Studies
- Giorgio Bertin
- Giuseppe Antonio Sala
- Georgetown Neighborhood Library
- Georgetown University Police Department
- Georgetown University School of Dentistry
- Gerardo Pierro
- Giovannantonio Cipriani
- Giovanni Roncari
- Guardia Lombardi
- Guglielmo Borghetti
- Guido Maria Casullo
- Hendrik Jan Jurriaan Schuwer
- Homeland Security Advisor
- Immaculate Conception Church (Tuckahoe, New York)
- Immaculate Conception St. Mary's Church
- Iona Preparatory School
- Italian mountain community
- J. Charles Davey
- J. Eugene Gallery
- J. Havens Richards
- J. Hunter Guthrie
- Jacques-Benjamin Longer
- James Clark (Jesuit)
- James A. Doonan
- James A. Ryder
- James A. Ward
- Jeremiah O'Connor (priest)
- Jerome Daugherty
- Jesuit Community Cemetery
- John B. Creeden
- John Blox
- John D. Whitney
- John F. Quirk
- John W. Beschter
- Joseph A. Canning
- Joseph A. Lopez
- Joseph A. Sellinger
- Joseph B. O'Hagan
- Joseph Hanselman
- Joseph J. Himmel
- Joseph O'Callaghan
- Kevin F. O'Brien
- Kingsley v. Hendrickson
- Lawrence C. Gorman
- Lawrence Hospital
- List of ambassadors of Italy to the United States
- List of cocktails named after New York City boroughs
- List of earthquakes in Irpinia
- List of Georgetown University alumni
- List of presidents of Saint Joseph's University
- List of presidents of the University of Scranton
- Louis-François de Rohan-Chabot
- Luciano Giovannetti (bishop)
- Lucio Bianco
- Lorenzo Maria Balconi
- Luigi Moretti (archbishop)
- Manresa Island
- Marcantonio Colonna (18th-century cardinal)
- Mario Meini
- Mario Miglietta
- Mario Milano (archbishop)
- Mario Oliveri
- Matthew Del Gaudio
- Matthew Kroenig
- McFadden v. United States
- Michael Hurley (19th-century priest)
- Monte Ceceri
- Nauru Court of Appeal
- New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department
- New York University Journal of Law & Liberty
- Niccolò Paccanari
- Old North Building
- Oracula vivæ vocis
- Our Lady of Mercy Church (Port Chester, New York)
- Our Lady of Pompeii Church (Manhattan)
- Ovidio Lari
- Pankratius Pfeiffer
- Pasquale Cascio
- Pecorino di Carmasciano
- Phelps Memorial Hospital
- Peter Verhaegen
- Pietro Bandini
- Pietro Boetto
- Pietro Gagliardi
- President and Directors of Georgetown College
- Raffaele Calabria
- Reyes Mata v. Lynch
- Richard J. Daronco
- Robert Picard de La Vacquerie
- Ross T. McIntire
- Salvatore Boniello
- Samuel Mulledy
- San Francesco Monastery (Fiesole)
- Sanctuary of San Gerardo Maiella
- Saint-Étienne, Uzès
- Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Issy-les-Moulineaux)
- Society of the Faith of Jesus
- St. Charles College (Louisiana)
- St. John's Episcopal Church, Georgetown
- St. John's Riverside Hospital
- St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church (Frederick, Maryland)
- St. Mary's Church (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
- St. Peter's Church (Washington, D.C.)
- St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral
- St. Thomas's Episcopal Church (New Haven, Connecticut)
- Statue of John Carroll
- Stefano Manetti
- Stephen A. Kelly
- Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson
- Sweden–NATO relations
- Theodore Roosevelt Federal Courthouse
- Thomas H. Stack
- Thomas I. Gasson
- Thomas Mulledy
- Thomistic Institute
- Thun Palace
- Timothy Brosnahan
- Tlahuica
- Tom Bossert
- Villa Le Balze
- Vincenzo Maria Sarnelli
- Vorau Abbey
- White Plains Hospital
- William F. Gannon
- William Feiner
- William Francis Clarke
- William J. Devlin
- William J. Ennis
- William J. McGarry
- William J. Murphy
- William L. Keleher
- William Matthews (priest)
- William McSherry
- Woodstock Letters
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