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单词 cogito
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Definition of cogito in English:

cogito

noun ˈkoɡɪtəʊˈkodʒɪtəʊˈkäj-
usually the cogitoPhilosophy
  • The principle establishing the existence of a being from the fact of its thinking or awareness.

    〔哲〕“意识决定存在”的理论

    Augustine gives a memorable earlier version of the Cartesian cogito
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The cogito shows that there is a thought, but not that there is an I who thinks it.
    • Even the most forcefully experienced insights - save the cogito - become open to doubt once the immediacy of the intuition passes.
    • It is because of this that Descartes erroneously took the cogito to be the foundation of certainty in human knowledge, and our knowledge of body to be less clear and less immediate.
    • 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.

Origin

Latin, 'I think', in Descartes's formula (1641) cogito, ergo sum 'I think therefore I am'.

Definition of cogito in US English:

cogito

nounˈkäj-
usually the cogitoPhilosophy
  • The principle establishing the existence of a being from the fact of its thinking or awareness.

    〔哲〕“意识决定存在”的理论

    Augustine gives a memorable earlier version of the Cartesian cogito
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even the most forcefully experienced insights - save the cogito - become open to doubt once the immediacy of the intuition passes.
    • It is because of this that Descartes erroneously took the cogito to be the foundation of certainty in human knowledge, and our knowledge of body to be less clear and less immediate.
    • 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.
    • The cogito shows that there is a thought, but not that there is an I who thinks it.

Origin

Latin, ‘I think’, in Descartes's formula (1641) cogito, ergo sum ‘I think therefore I am’.

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