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Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Latin phrase "cogito, ergo sum" (traditionally translated as "I think, therefore I am," but more accurately "I am thinking, therefore I exist") is possibly the single best-known philosophical statement, and is attributed to René Descartes. |
 | | Although the idea expressed by "cogito ergo sum" is most commonly associated with Descartes, it was present in many of his antecedents, especially Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei (books XI, 26), who offers this argument, and anticipates modern refutations of it. |
 | | Three arguments will be presented against the cogito, all of which will be rejected, before an examination of Bernard Williams' rejection of the cogito on the grounds of its third-person comprehensibility. |
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