Sentences with phrase «cogito ergo»

I can start with cogito ergo sum, and get to my position with no assumptions (unless you refer to the Peano Postulates as assumptions, which is barely arguable).

Renee Descartes put «facts» in their place when he said «cogito ergo sum» (usually translated, «I think, therefore I am»).

French philosopher René Descartes once said, cogito ergo sum: I think, therefore I am.

The cogito ergo sum of the Christian view of repentance is: Since I can repent, I am responsible.

Above all try to forget it, to be an individual man is not to be anything — think, and then thou art the whole of humanity, cogito ergo sum.»

Descartes himself acknowledged that his cogito ergo sum is already fundamental in Augustine's philosophy (letter to Colvius, 14 November, 1640), and he believed that his philosophy was the first to demonstrate the philosophical truth of the doctrine of transubstantiation, and could go so far as to claim that scholastic philosophy would have been rejected as clashing with faith if his philosophy had been known first (letter to Mersenne, 31 March, 1641) Indeed, nothing is more revolutionary in modern philosophy than its dissolution of the scholastic distinction between natural theology and revealed theology.

Not exact matches

Descartes (1596 - 1650) contributed to mathematics and especially to philosophy — to the latter with his basic questioning and his principle of cogito, ergo sum («I think, therefore I am»).

It is first spoken by René Descartes as «ego cogito, ergo sum» — «I think, therefore I am», but it is a fallacy because he mixed up being with physical processes.