Cogito, ergo sum “I am thinking, therefore I exist” appears in the CSMK translation of Descartes's correspondence in French (“, ”) to colleagues at CSMK III 247. The earliest known translation as "I am thinking, therefore I am" is from 1872 by Charles Porterfield Krauth. As put compactly by Prof. Krauth (1872), "That cannot doubt which does not think, and that cannot think which does not exist. I doubt, I think, I exist." The phrase "cogito, ergo sum" is not used in Descartes's "Meditations on First Philosophy" but the term "the "cogito"" is used to refer to an argument from it. In the
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