cogito
See also: cogitò
English
Noun
cogito (usually uncountable, plural cogitos)
- (philosophy, often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.
- 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre (author), Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick (translators), The Transcendence of the Ego, Noonday Press, pp. 43-44.
- The Cogito of Descartes and Husserl is an apprehension of fact. . . . Such a Cogito is performed by a consciousness directed upon consciousness, a consciousness which takes consciousness as an object.
- 1966 Dec., Geoffrey Hartman, "Beyond Formalism," MLN, vol. 81, no. 5, p. 551:
- But are there not as many consciousnesses or cogitos as there are individuals?
- 1984 Jan., Charles Larmore, "Descartes' Psychologistic Theory of Assent," History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 65:
- An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference.
- 2000 Spring, Linnell Secomb, "Fractured Community," Hypatia, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 138:
- Benhabib proposes a . . . "recognition that the subjects of reason are finite, embodied and fragile creatures, and not disembodied cogitos or abstract unities of transcendental apperception".
- 2009 May, Ernest Sosa, "Précis of A Virtue Epistemology," Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition," vol. 144, no. 1, p. 109 n11:
- It may be thought that this leads to an even more radical skepticism than that envisaged by Descartes, since now even the cogito may be questioned.
- 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre (author), Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick (translators), The Transcendence of the Ego, Noonday Press, pp. 43-44.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
cogito
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.ɡi.toː/, [ˈkoːɡɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.d͡ʒi.to/, [ˈkɔːd͡ʒit̪o]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Verb
cōgitō (present infinitive cōgitāre, perfect active cōgitāvī, supine cōgitātum); first conjugation
- I think
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations[1]:
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- I consider, ponder
Conjugation
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: cugeta;cugeta, cugetare
- Italian: cogitare, coitare
- Old French: cuidier, cuider, kuider, quider, quidier
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cuidar
- Old Occitan: cuidar
- Occitan: coidar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cuidar, coidar
- Old Spanish: coidar
- Spanish: cuidar
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: quitar
- → Albanian: kujtoj
- → Catalan: cogitar
- → English: cogitate
- → French: cogiter
- → Italian: cogitare
- → Portuguese: cogitar
- → Spanish: cogitar
References
- “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cogito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
- to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
- cogito in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese
Verb
cogito
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Spanish
Verb
cogito
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