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  • I Think, Therefore I Am

    I Think, Therefore I Am

    The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as “I think, therefore I am”, is the “first principle” of RenĂ© Descartes’s philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method. It later appeared in Latin in his Principles of Philosophy, and a similar…