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by Anonymous on January 20th, 2006

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How can a human be certain that a thought or idea is not a cognitive distortion?

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  • by Godfather Part II on April 7th, 2006

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    We can't. This is the point of Rene Descartes famous phrase "I think therefore I am". He decided to try and find out what was 100% true in the world. He could only prove he was thinking, and could not even prove he was thinking what he thought he was thinking!

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  • by Joe-Speedy on January 23rd, 2006

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    You can't. For all we know, reality is all one huge distortion and we are all having it simultaneously. However, it is very persistent.

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  • by huggy1 on February 3rd, 2006

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    Can we ever be certain ?

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  • by Jam McLaug on February 15th, 2006

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    By being aware of his or her cognitive thoughts, Usually any thought or opinion which is a generalization probally is

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