“COGITO” in italiano

Even the most forcefully experienced insights - save the cogito - become open to doubt once the immediacy of the intuition passes.

This missing element is the self, or subject: the focal point of Descartes reasoning, whose existence was established by the cogito .

The Cartesian cogito played a major part in promoting the scientific and rational development of the Enlightenment in the 18th century.

Augustine gives a memorable earlier version of the Cartesian cogito

The cogito shows that there is a thought, but not that there is an I who thinks it.