cogito

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Descartes's argument cogito, ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am"), or the act of thought on which it rests

   The Cartesian cogito treats present thinking as indubitable evidence of existence.

From Latin cogito ("I think"), the first-person singular of cogitare ("to think, consider"). It entered philosophical English through Descartes's formula cogito, ergo sum.

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