I guess it's in Latin .
2006-10-01 23:24:41 · 12 answers · asked by citizen high 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
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2006-10-01 23:31:40 · update #1
I think, therefore I am.
(The English words 'cogitate' and 'cogent' come from the Latin meaning to think or ponder.)
2006-10-01 23:26:55 · answer #1 · answered by Sweet FA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dictum coined in 1637 by René Descartes as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge. It is the only statement to survive the test of his methodic doubt. The statement is indubitable, Descartes argued, because even if an all-powerful demon were to try to deceive him into thinking he exists when he does not, Descartes would have to exist in order to be deceived. Therefore, whenever he thinks, he exists. Furthermore, Descartes maintained, the statement “I am” (sum) expresses an immediate intuition, not the conclusion of a process of reasoning, and is thus indubitable.
I think; therefore I am
A statement by the seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes. “I think; therefore I am” was the end of the search Descartes conducted for a statement that could not be doubted. He found that he could not doubt that he himself existed, as he was the one doing the doubting in the first place. In Latin (the language in which Descartes wrote), the phrase is “Cogito, ergo sum.”
2006-10-02 07:00:04 · answer #2 · answered by Ally 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cogito ergo sum (Latin: "I am thinking, therefore I exist", or traditionally "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy.
2006-10-02 06:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by mancrib 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You think, you are. René Descates, a french philosopher in
Le discours de la méthode.
2006-10-02 06:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by augustin dadiani 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if you want to be really correct, you should also recognize the mistake M. Descartes made.
He should have said: "I think, Therefore I think I am."
2006-10-02 08:06:08 · answer #5 · answered by Longshiren 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As everyone has said, it translates to "I think, therefore I am."
What it means is that one's existence ("I am") is proven by one's consciousness ("I think"): hence, the ability to be aware of oneself, to have ideas, to grasp concepts, to imagine - all these modes of thinking are proof of our existence.
Conversely, it also makes a statement about existence: specifically human existence: we only truly exist if we are capable of thinking.
2006-10-02 06:39:03 · answer #6 · answered by alpha 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think therefore I am
2006-10-02 06:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by dragonrider707 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think therefore i am - by rene descartes
2006-10-03 05:54:57 · answer #8 · answered by mirothana06 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think, therefore I am. "Pienso, luego existo" in spanish language.
2006-10-02 07:03:31 · answer #9 · answered by templari@ 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"I think, therefore I am"
Descartes.
2006-10-02 06:27:48 · answer #10 · answered by johanna m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋