Uttered by Dick Van Dyke's character on the Dick Van Dyke Show. I was flipping through the channels during a commercial break for Person of Interest and caught him saying this while the families of Rob and Laura Petrie discussed names for their unborn child.
I have remarked on the substitution of "I feel" for "I think" - apparently this had been taking place in American mass media in the '60s. When did this shift in language start becoming prevalent? Did this change in the spoken language precede emotivist theories of ethics (and language)?
Has anyone done the changes for Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" to reflect this understanding of human nature?
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