Cogito, ergo sum, “I think, therefore I am.” Descartes' principle of certainty, and on which, as on a stable basis, he reared his whole philosophy. See Descartes. “Alas, poor cogitator,” Carlyle exclaims, “this takes us but a little way. Sure enough, I am; and lately was not; but Whence? How? Whereto?”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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