451 | Thinking implies existence, because thinking depends on it [Parmenides] |
2573 | To perceive or think is to be conscious of our existence [Aristotle] |
3912 | I must exist in order to be mistaken, so that even if I am mistaken, I can't be wrong about my own existence [Augustine] |
3622 | The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes] |
24020 | We all see intuitively that we exist, where intuition is attentive, clear and distinct rational understanding [Descartes] |
24031 | When Socrates doubts, he know he doubts, and that truth is possible [Descartes] |
3607 | In thinking everything else false, my own existence remains totally certain [Descartes] |
6929 | Modern philosophy set the self-conscious ego in place of God [Descartes, by Feuerbach] |
3849 | "I think therefore I am" is the absolute truth of consciousness [Sartre on Descartes] |
2258 | I must even exist if I am being deceived by something [Descartes] |
2259 | "I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind [Descartes] |
3160 | The Cogito is a transcendental argument, not a piece of a priori knowledge [Rey on Descartes] |
2260 | If I don't think, there is no reason to think that I exist [Descartes] |
6914 | Descartes transformed 'God is thinkable, so he exists' into 'I think, so I exist' [Descartes, by Feuerbach] |
4641 | In the Meditations version of the Cogito he says "I am; I exist", which avoids presenting it as an argument [Descartes, by Baggini /Fosl] |
3658 | Total doubt can't include your existence while doubting [Descartes] |
5005 | I think, therefore I am, because for a thinking thing to not exist is a contradiction [Descartes] |
5006 | 'Thought' is all our conscious awareness, including feeling as well as understanding [Descartes] |
12564 | I am as certain of the thing doubting, as I am of the doubt [Locke] |
12905 | I cannot think my non-existence, nor exist without being myself [Leibniz] |
23659 | If someone denies that he is thinking when he is conscious of it, we can only laugh [Reid] |
15636 | The Cogito is at the very centre of the entire concern of modern philosophy [Hegel] |
15611 | I develop philosophical science from the simplest appearance of immediate consciousness [Hegel, by Hegel] |
4165 | Descartes found the true beginning of philosophy with the Cogito, in the consciousness of the individual [Schopenhauer] |
21220 | The physical given, unlike the mental given, could be non-existing [Husserl] |
5359 | Descartes showed that subjective things are the most certain [Russell] |
21862 | Consciousness is based on 'I can', not on 'I think' [Merleau-Ponty] |
3828 | Thinking must involve a self, not just an "it" [Searle] |
8221 | We cannot judge the Cogito. Must we begin? Must we start from certainty? Can 'I' relate to thought? [Deleuze/Guattari] |
3881 | In the Cogito argument consciousness develops into self-consciousness [Scruton] |