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Discourse on the Method
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Cogito:
(Latin: “I think, therefore I am”)
This is the statement that intends to demonstrate that, certain knowledge is
attainable, and that by no means the doubt of existence is a valid doubt, since,
even by doubting, one must exist in order to perform this action.
I am for descartes, is not a conclusion of dubious reason, but an immediate
intuition prior to doubt, since doubt, as an act of reasoning, is performed
but an existent being, that preceds his own thought.