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Single Idea 3849

[from 'Meditations' by René Descartes, in 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito ]

Full Idea

"I think therefore I am" is the absolute truth of consciousness as it attains to itself.

Gist of Idea

"I think therefore I am" is the absolute truth of consciousness

Source

comment on René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2) by Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism p.44

Book Reference

Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Existentialism and Humanism', ed/tr. Mairet,Philip [Methuen 1980], p.44