| Were I to refuse to come at the problem by way of moral self-acceptance, I could easily reduce the cogito to either tautology or antilogy. |
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| The cogito shows that there is a thought, but not that there is an I who thinks it. |
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| The Cartesian cogito played a major part in promoting the scientific and rational development of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. |
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| The cogito of the dreamer is found in the space between psychoanalysis, the phenomenological development of images, biography and cosmology. |
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| In a related vein, Descartes's cogito reasoning also undergoes close scrutiny. |
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| Even though they were announced in the preface of the third edition of the work Sic cogito, the other two books, Ita sensum and Virtus rediviva havent been published. |
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| Thus the man who discovers himself directly in the cogito also discovers all the others, and discovers them as the condition of his own existence. |
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| An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference. |
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| At least since Kant, we philosophers and philosophasters have all professed ourselves dissatisfied with the Cartesian cogito ergo sum. |
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| It is emblematically connected with Descartes' famous pronouncement cogito ergo sum, she says, and has become something of a social ideology. |
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| Nonetheless, he never accepted any version of a substance dualism in the person that the Cartesian cogito or the Kantian transcendental subject would require. |
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| Worthy of attention is that Descartes characterizes the cogito using the same cognitive language that he uses to characterize the atheist's defeasible cognition. |
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| How can the cogito emigrate beyond me, since it is me? |
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| It may be thought that this leads to an even more radical skepticism than that envisaged by Descartes, since now even the cogito may be questioned. |
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