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| 3622 | The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition |
| Full Idea: When someone says 'I am thinking, therefore I am, or I exist', he does not deduce existence from thought by means of a syllogism, but recognises it as something self-evident by a simple intuition of the mind. | |||
| From: René Descartes (Reply to Second Objections [1641], 140) |