Cogito, ergo sum

cogito, ergo sum, ( Latin: I think, therefore I am) dictum coined in 1637 by Ren
Descartes as a first step in demonstrating the attainability of certain knowledge. It is
the only statement to survive the test of his methodic doubt. The statement is
indubitable, Descartes argued, because even if an all-powerful demon were to try to
deceive me into thinking that I exist when I do not, I would have to exist for the
demon to deceive me. Therefore, whenever I think, I exist. Furthermore , he argued,
the statement I am (sum) expresses an immediate intuition, not the conclusion of
dubious reasoning, and is thus indubitable. Whatever I know, I know intuitively that I
am.

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