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  Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Cogito ergo sum" is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis", which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637).
The phrase "cogito ergo sum" is not used in Descartes' most important work, the Meditations on First Philosophy, but the term "the cogito" is (often confusingly) used to refer to an argument from it.
"Cogito ergo sum" translates as "I think therefore I am" which implies that existence is the effect of the cause of thinking, which is a philosophical fallacy.
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 Cogito Ergo Sum (or Do I?)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
cogito ergo sum, there are areas of his proof that are susceptible to defamation.
cogito ergo sum, due to the fact that this conclusion is not established through syllogism.
cogito ergo sum is not carved in stone.
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 Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia
Cogito ergo sum (lat.) ich denke, also bin ich, ist die lateinische Übersetzung der französischen, Descart'schen Definition: „Je pense donc je suis“.
In der lateinischen Urfassung „cogito, ego sum“, wurde es erst in der französischen Übersetzung als „cogito, ergo sum“ von Descartes toleriert und seitdem oft kritisiert.
Laut Jaakko Hintikka ist das „Cogito ergo sum“ kein logischer Schluss, sondern die Vermeidung eines performativen Widerspruchs.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cogito_ergo_sum   (563 words)

  
 cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am (Latin to English translation glossary) Art/Literary
Descartes coined the phrase \"Cognito, ergo sum.\" (\"I think, therefore I am\") which was a conclusion that there was only one thing of which he could be certain; that he existed!...\"
If it is not a misspelled Descartes' "COGITO ergo sum" it may be a play of words meaning rather: I learn, or I study, therefore I am.
"COGITO ergo sum" is the famous conclusion drawn by Descartes after a long and arduous attempt to prove his own existence.
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 Wakefield Press – Cogito, Ergo Sum
Much of his own life is obscure to us now, which has led to tales of the great philosopher lying in bed meditating each morning until eleven, piously following the dictates of a Cardinal, writing verses for a Queen, and so on.
Many of these myths are exploded in Cogito, Ergo Sum, the first biography published since 1920 based on extensive original archival and field research.
Cogito, Ergo Sum is certain to be the standard life of Descartes against which all future biographies will be judged.
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 The Cogito Story
Almost four centuries later, Cogito was founded, focused on a new mathematical way to structure and query complex data and named in honor of the man known as the Father of Modern Mathematics.
Cogito has spent many man-years researching and modeling data structures, knowledge management algorithms, and data visualization techniques.
The resulting product—the Cogito Knowledge Center—represents the first commercially significant advance in information management since the advent of relational databases.
www.cogitoinc.com /about_cogito.html   (197 words)

  
 Descartes' Epistemology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The privileged certainty of the cogito is grounded in the “manifest contradiction” (cf.
There is no inconsistency in the view that the meditator comes to appreciate the persuasive force of the cogito by means of inferential reflection, while also holding that his eventual conviction is not grounded in inference.
Worthy of attention is that Descartes characterizes the cogito using the same cognitive language that he uses to characterize the atheist's defeasible cognition.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/descartes-epistemology   (17528 words)

  
 Who said Cogito Ergo Sum?
Cogito Ergo Sum is Latin for "I think there for I add" It was hypothesized by the great mathematician and scholar, Rene the Square.
Rene had grown sick and tired of the other mathematicians picking on him for only being good at addition and his belief that all math is simply made up of different forms of adding.
He used "Cogito Ergo Sum" to support that he was a mathematician.
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 Ergo Sum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ergo Sum was formed under the credo that art should be for everyone.
Ergo Sum specializes in defining art trends and marketing licensed brand imagery with mass appeal.
Ergo Sum, “Therefore, I am” is borrowed from the Latin phrase:
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 Amazon.com: Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes: Books: Richard A. Watson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cogito, Ergo Sum: The Life of Rene Descartes by Richard A. Watson
In Cogito Ergo Sum, Richard Watson, a distinguished Cartesian scholar and a former professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, takes us on a grand journey across Europe as he follows in the footsteps of Rene Descartes, the Father of Modern Philosophy.
Cogito Ergo Sum is one of those books that you enjoy more every time you read it.
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 SparkNotes: Meditations on First Philosophy: Second Meditation, Part 1: cogito ergo sum and sum res cogitans
The cogito argument is so called because of its Latin formulation in the Discourse on Method: "cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").
The cogito presents a picture of the world and of knowledge in which the mind is something that can know itself better than it can know anything else.
After the cogito, the Meditator advances the claim that he is a thing that thinks, an argument called the sum res cogitans, after its Latin formulation.
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 Expanding Cogito Ergo Sum
With “Cogito Ergo Sum” (I think, therefore I am) Descartes was attempting to tackle the largest philosophical questions of his time.
In short, the unconscious thought process is this: I think for myself, that creates my identity; if someone takes my thoughts away from me, they’re causing me to cease to exist… therefore I will resist their actions.
Or, in honour of Descartes, Cogito Ergo Resisto…or “I think, therefore I resist.” I stand my ground, until I have reason to move.
www.theatlasphere.com /columns/printer_050610-dejager-cogitoergosum.php   (590 words)

  
 Manticornio · Rock Progresivo · ERGO SUM
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ERGO SUM, grupo formado por Alexandro TAFARIKIS (composiciones, producción, guitarras eléctrica y acústica), Sebastián IGLESIAS (bajo), Juan Daniel RÍOS (flauta transversal), Sergio MENARES (batería, percusiones) y Gonzalo MUGA (percusiones), se formó en 1994 como un cuarteto de música electroacústica.
Según lo confirma su biografía, ERGO SUM tiene sólo dos álbumes: su epónimo de 1997 y "Mixolidio" (2000), siendo éste último una recopilación de temas anteriores, temas en vivo y un par de canciones nuevas.
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 René Descartes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cogito ergo sum, method of doubt, Mathesis Universalis, Cartesian coordinate system, Cartesian dualism, ontological argument for God's existence; regarded as a founder of Modern philosophy
His most famous statement is Cogito ergo sum (French: Je pense, donc je suis or in English: I think, therefore I am), found in §7 of Principles of Philosophy (Latin) and part IV of Discourse on Method (French).
Most famously, this is known as cogito ergo sum, ("I think, therefore I am").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Descartes   (2445 words)

  
 From "Cogito, Ergo Sum" to   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The intention is to bridge the gap between consciousness and "the world".
Descartes' tautology "Cogito, ergo sum." ("I think, therefore I am.") should be the basis of the whole.
There should be a derivation (inference) starting with this tautology and leading to all possible properties of all worlds.
physics.usc.edu /~vongehr/phil_html/expo.html   (734 words)

  
 Cogito-ergo-sum: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
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 aheil.de blog - Cogito Ergo Sum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
I took it in 2005/2006 when I went off to the airport at a freezing morning.
A child did have some fun with the rear window of my car (ich (ger.) - "I", aka cogito ergo sum (lat.) -"I think, therefore I am").
The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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 “Russell, Wittgenstein and Cogito ergo sum”
That’s a very peculiar sentence", pointing to his own head at the words "cogito" and "sum".
Now I have often wondered whether the true meaning of Descartes’ "cogito" was "I am conscious" rather than "I am thinking".
Flew says that he wrote his argument in French before he translated it into Latin, or at least that he published in French before he did so in Latin, and I cannot believe that "je pense" could have the meaning "I am conscious".
www.wittgenstein.internet-today.co.uk /flew.html   (4108 words)

  
 René Descartes | Philosopher
This concern and his method of systematic doubt had an enormous impact on the subsequent development of philosophy.
Descartes introduced the now famous Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum," or in English "I think, therefore I am."
He covers the diverse realms Cartesian thought, from metaphysics to mathematics (where he invented analytic geometry), optics, medicine, physiology and psychology.
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 cogito ergo sum
Managers are people, ergo managers are lazy, too.
When you own your own business, it is different (at least, it should be).
cogito ergo sum is going back to school and going to focus back on philosophy, politics and business.
rescogitans.net   (3920 words)

  
 Cogito ergo sum - Wikipedia
en:Cogito ergo sum pl:Cogito ergo sum cogito, ergo sum (lat.
Zu einer sprachanalytischen Betrachtung von "cogito, ergo sum" bei Rudolf Carnap
Das "cogito ergo sum" ist kein logischer Schluss sondern die Vermeidung eines performativen Widerspruchs - damit wird Carnaps Betrachtung hinfällig.
www.politikwiki.de /index.php/Cogito_ergo_sum   (622 words)

  
 Sample Paper: Descartes on Existence of the Self: Cogito ergo sum
Sample Paper: Descartes on Existence of the Self: Cogito ergo sum
Meditation II Descartes offers a version of his famous "cogito ergo sum" argument.
I follow Descartes in putting the argument in the first person ("I" instead of "he").
www.uark.edu /campus-resources/rlee/intrau99/cogito.html   (977 words)

  
 Cogito — Ergo Sum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A brief thought from Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti, from his work On the Duties and Education of Children.
Perhaps somewhat surprising to those who know me or are familiar with me professionally, I have almost completely avoided the discussion of technical matters on Ergo Sum and relatively rarely talk about my writing projects.
I have plenty of venues for publishing and do try to keep them organized by topic.
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 René Descartes, the 17th Century French Philosopher and Mathematician!
He was the first scientist-philosopher to organize the process of thought and link it to the meaning of one's very existence!
His famous argument was "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am")!
Through this ultimate rationalistic view, Descartes attempts to prove the existence of one's self not through one's sense experience but through reasoning.
descartes.cyberbrahma.com   (457 words)

  
 Week 11: Medieval elements in Descartes
This is the famous cogito, ergo sum, "I think, therefore I am"; he does not use these words here, but they occur in the parallel place in his
Descartes has now found in the cogito a firm basis upon which his philosophy can be constructed.
Not that indeed I imitated the sceptics, who only doubt for the sake of doubting, and pretend to be always uncertain; for on the contrary, my design was only to provide myself with good grounds for assurance, and to reject the quicksand and mud in order to find the rock or clay (
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 Renacimiento - Monografias.com
Ya en su tiempo Descartes recibió la objeción de que el cogito era la conclusión de un silogismo -a los que precisamente Descartes quiere evitar en su intento de ruptura con la filosofía medieval- cuya premisa mayor (sobreentendida) sería "todo lo que piensa existe", la premisa menor "yo pienso", y la conclusión "yo existo".
El mecanismo de demostración de la sustancia pensante lo hemos visto ya con el análisis del cogito.
Descartes recurre a Dios como garantía de verdad, puesto que hasta ahora su filosofía se había quedado circunscrita a la idea del cogito, sin posibilidad de avance.
www.monografias.com /trabajos5/renaci/renaci2.shtml   (7267 words)

  
 Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking for Truth in the Sciences
In this I might perhaps appear to you to be very vain if you did not remember that having but one truth to discover in respect to each matter, whoever succeeds in finding it knows in its regard as much as can be known.
It is the same as with a child, for instance, who has been instructed in Arithmetic and has made an addition according to the rule prescribed; he may be sure of having found as regards the sum of figures given to him all that the human mind can know.
For, in conclusion, the Method which teaches us to follow the true order and enumerate exactly every term in the matter under investigation contains everything which gives certainty to the rules of Arithmetic.
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 Cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am.
I am all of 19 going on 20 and by a not-so-funny twist of fate, doing engineering.
But this does ~~> Cogito ergo Sum again.:-) So folks...do link me up...or change my link if u have added me already.
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 cogito ergo sum
If I were still in that 17-year-old state, what I'm thinking is probably just how to do well in school and get into an ideal college, to meet friends I can get along with, and let others understand me more, let myself less criticized by others, or yelled at.
To sum it up, it's probably just to make the days happier… in general.
Other things too far into the future, it's useless to think too much about it anyway.
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 Welcome to Ergo Sum — Ergo Sum
Ergo Sum is a Web site about life: not merely the things that we do to sustain life, but the things that make life worth living.
The site's title is, of course, a reference to the dictum penned by Rene Descartes in 1637, "Cogito, ergo sum," Latin for "I think, therefore I am."
We arrange this site into several topics; all contributions will appear in the topic indices.
www.ergo-sum.us   (117 words)

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