does anyone know what exactly the cogito argument is??

Question

there are many versions of it for example..
there is "i think therefore i exist"
but there is also "i am, i exist"

guys, there are other versions of it

Answer 1

Cogito Ergo Sum is I think therefore, I am. It means that if you have the ability to think then you must exist. Our senses may lie to us. For example, how do we know what we are seeing is truly real (Plato's cave), or how do we know that something is hot when we touch it? We don't but because we have the ability to rationalize these things we at least know that we exist. We might not know if what we see is real but we can discuss it, and debate it, and think about it. This is the Cogito Ergo Sum argument. Descartes is awesome!

Answer 2

This was written in response to your previous question. I tried to post this yesterday, but hit some kind of timeout and afterward could not answer that question.

It's hard to be sure we're helping with an essay. I hope you've read all the background material you are supposed to; it's your best hint as to what is wanted.

"Cogito, ergo sum" gave Descartes a basis other than accumulated assertions by "authorities" or the possibly inaccurate observations of the senses on which to base his philosophy.

I notice someone else has claimed he assumed the "I" in the first place. (Perhaps that illustrates the danger of accepting "authority" uncritically.) You will see that's not really the case; he observed that in order to think about anything, he had to admit the existence of some entity having the thoughts:

"I had noticed for a long time that in practice it is sometimes necessary to follow opinions which we know to be very uncertain, just as though they were indubitable, as I stated before; but inasmuch as I desired to devote myself wholly to the search for truth, I thought that I should take a course precisely contrary, and reject as absolutely false anything of which I could have the least doubt, in order to see whether anything would be left after this procedure which could be called wholly certain.

"Thus, as our senses deceive us at times, I was ready to suppose that nothing was at all the way our senses represented them to be. As there are men who make mistakes in reasoning even on the simplest topics in geometry, I judged that I was as liable to error as any other, and rejected as false all the reasoning which I had previously accepted as valid demonstration. Finally, as the same percepts which we have when awake may come to us when asleep without their being true, I decided to suppose that nothing that had ever entered my mind was more real than the illusion of my dreams.

"But I soon noticed that while I then wished to think everything false, it was necessarily true that I who thought so was something. Since this truth, I think, therefore I am, was so firm and assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the sceptics were unable to shake it, I judged that I could safely accept it as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking."

(I suspect that assertion, that Descartes assumed what he was trying to prove, derives from mistaking the famous summary of the conclusion for the whole argument.)

Answer 3

cogito ergo sum

I think therefore I am.

Because I perceive a thought process is happening in my brain and because only things that can think exist, I must be one of those things that exist. Therefore, I am.

Answer 4

"I am soul, therefore I know" is a more profound version, as is "I Am, therefore I think."

"From Light to Sound," Holtje
"A Philosophy of Universality," Aivanhov
"Climb the Highest Mountain," Prophet.

regards,

j.

Answer 5

The argument is whether the act of thinking causes you to exist; (primacy of consciousness) - I think, therefore I am - or whether you exist which enables you to think; (primacy of existence) - I am, therefore I think.