Certainty the fact that he was one of the first to write on the topic and acted as a comparison for the traditional and definitive works of the Western tradition. Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" is a book in which Descartes first discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. Although the phrase "Cogito, ergo sum" is often attributed to Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy", it is actually put forward in his "Discourse on Method". Due to the implications of inferring the conclusion within the predicate, however, he
Mr. Cogito Seeks Advice"), "Gra Pana Cogito" ("Mr. Cogito's Game"), "Co myśli Pan Cogito o piekle" ("What Mr. Cogito Thinks About Hell"), "Pan Cogito o postawie wyprostowanej" ("Mr Cogito On The Upright Position"), "Przesłanie Pana Cogito" ("The Message of Mr Cogito"). This poetry collection was published in Paris in 1983. An allusion to the state of martial law imposed in Poland by the Communist junta, it was officially unpublishable in Poland. A few months later an underground edition was published by a clandestine press in Poland, and no legal edition was available until 1992. It includes another twelve poems featuring Mr. Cogito,