Hence his famousCogito ergo Sum: I think, therefore I am.
The Cogito ergo Sum was not new itself, but it was the first stone of a new building--the first step in a new road: from this fact Des Cartes tried to reach another, and from that others.
If Cogito ergo sum is an institution to which we can trust, why is not Non cogito ergo non sum?
This principle now received its classic formulation in the proposition, Cogito ergo sum--"I think, hence I am.
Accordingly, I may conclude that everything which I perceive as clearly and distinctly as the cogito ergo sum is also true, and I reach this general rule, omne est verum, quod clare et distincte percipio.
Hence the proposition: I think, therefore I am (cogito ergo sum), is the first and most certain position which offers itself to every one attempting to philosophize.
From the proposition cogito ergo sum, follows still farther the universal rule of all certainty.
Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum--whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence.
Our existence depends on the fact that we are cognized by God (cogitor ergo cogito et sum).
The axiom of Cartesianism is, therefore, the Cogito ergo sum.
By him, and by Spinoza after him, the verb cogito and the substantive cogitatio were used to denote consciousness in general, any kind of feeling, even what we now call sub-consciousness.
This is the meaning of that saying, Cogito ergo sum, of Descartes.
Descartes, according to the Scottish sceptic, had no right to have said more than Cogito ergo cogitationes sunt.
Cogito ergo sum had been shown by Hume to involve an illicit process of reasoning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cogito" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
