Then very controversially Descartes says, okay I've got one bit of certainty here but I'm thinking that I exist, can't I look at the VAT instance of certainty and draw a general rule from it.

接下来笛卡尔说的话就非常有争议了，我在此得到了一些肯定，但是我正在思考我的存在，我不能仅凭看到了容器这个确凿的例子，就从中描绘出一个普遍的规律。

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S. For a humorous perspective on the VAT, take a look at these clever cartoons ( here, here, and here).

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