Full Idea
"I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind.
Gist of Idea
"I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind
Source
René Descartes (Meditations [1641], §2.25)
Book Reference
Descartes,René: 'Discourse on Method/The Meditations', ed/tr. Sutcliffe,F.E. [Penguin 1968], p.103
Related Idea
Idea 18453 Intelligence is aware of itself, so the intelligence is both the thinker and the thought [Porphyry]