Definition of Cogito

1. a philosophical principle [n -TOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogito

cogitability
cogitable
cogitabund
cogitant
cogitate
cogitated
cogitates
cogitating
cogitatingly
cogitation
cogitations
cogitative
cogitatively
cogitator
cogitators
cogito (current term)
cogitos
coglike
coglucosidase
coglycolide
cogman
cogmen
cognacs
cognacy
cognate
cognate word
cognately
cognateness
cognates
cognation

Literary usage of Cogito

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"From " cogito, ergo sum," their reasoning is that nothing can be in the ... Hence they reason that we cannot conclude from the cogito to the esse of God or ..."

2. Prolegomena to Theism by Louis Francis Anderson (1910)
"The "cogito ergo sum" affirms subjective existence by inductive process, ... Sum ergo cogito is therefore a more correct definition of spiritual existences. ..."

3. The Syllogistic Philosophy Or Prolegomena to Science by Francis Ellingwood Abbot (1906)
"... II "cogito, ERGO SUM" § 40. MODERN philosophy was born into distinct self- consciousness in Bacon and Descartes : Bacon, the founder of empiricism or ..."

4. An Outline of Philosophy by John Watson (1898)
"... THE CARTESIAN cogito ERGO SUM. THE short statement and criticism of the Cartesian conception of mind, contained in the text,2 will be better understood ..."

5. A Sketch of the Development of Philosophic Thought from Thales to Kant by Ludwig Noiré (1900)
"cogito. This was the firm point, this the basis on which everything else had to be built up. After long and energetic strivings his powerful mind had ..."

6. Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art by Thomas William Rolleston (1908)
"... APPENDIX A SUM ERGO cogito NOT to encumber the text with too much abstruse metaphysics, I place here what seem to me some important corollaries of the ..."

7. A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler (1879)
"From the proposition cogito ergo sum, follows still farther the universal rule of all certainty. I am certain that. I am a thinking being, ..."

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