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. |
In a related vein, Descartes's cogito reasoning also undergoes close scrutiny. |
The cogito of the dreamer is found in the space between psychoanalysis, the phenomenological development of images, biography and cosmology. |
For cogo and cogito have the same relation to each other as ago and agito, facio and factito. |
The Cartesian cogito played a major part in promoting the scientific and rational development of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. |
The cogito shows that there is a thought, but not that there is an I who thinks it. |