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{{a|confcall|}}The fundamental [[Ontology|ontological]] character of a participant, other than oneself<ref>[[Büchstein]] followed Descartes in calling this subject [[res cogitans]], the “thinking” (or in some translations, “suffering” thing.</ref>, in a [[all-hands conference call]] as distinct from that person’s corporeal body, their personality, their outside interests (in football, knitting, sailing, ornithology, or any other damn thing on the planet but this benighted [[conference call]] etc) | {{a|confcall|}}The fundamental [[Ontology|ontological]] character of a participant, other than oneself<ref>[[Büchstein]] followed Descartes in calling this subject [[res cogitans]], the “thinking” (or, in some translations, “suffering”) thing.</ref>, in a [[all-hands conference call]] as distinct from that person’s corporeal body, their personality, their outside interests (in football, knitting, sailing, ornithology, or any other damn thing on the planet but this benighted [[conference call]] etc). | ||
{{ | This came from [[Otto Büchstein]] on his ''[[Discourse on Intercourse]]'', whose aphorism ''[[convenimus ergo es]]'' sharply criticised [[Descartes]] more famous formulation, “[[cogito ergo sum]]”. | ||
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*[[All-hands conference call]] | *[[All-hands conference call]] | ||
*[[Otto Büchstein]] | *[[Otto Büchstein]] | ||