Being and Nothingness it has been suggested that it usually went unread by them. Sartre's reflections on slime ("le visqueux") have been described as celebrated. Sartre's existentialism shares its philosophical starting point with René Descartes: The first thing we can be aware of is our existence, even when doubting everything else (Cogito ergo sum). In "Nausea", the main character's feeling of dizziness towards his own existence is induced by things, not thinking. This dizziness occurs "in the face of one's freedom and responsibility for giving a meaning to reality". As an important break with Descartes, Sartre rejects the "primacy of knowledge", as summed
Cogito (software) on a Cogito managed repository. Conversely, most Cogito commands can be used on repositories primarily managed by Git or StGIT. Cogito is implemented as a set of Bash scripts (unlike Git, which is written mostly in C and portable Unix shell). As of April 2007 the project is stalled and declared "for sale", because a lot of the functionality has already been taken over by git, and the maintainer, Petr Baudiš, decided it would be better to focus on improving git-core. Cogito is released under the GNU GPL. As of May 2008, Cogito does not work well with recent Git