The Human Condition (book) but the self, Descartes and other moderns thought, could be known. Though his cogito ergo sum was anticipated by Augustine, his dubito ergo sum is original and a hallmark of modernity: beginning from doubt. The notion of common sense as a sense in which the other five were fitted to a common world ceded to a conception of common sense as an inner faculty with no relationship to the world, and the assumption that all humans had faculties like this in common became necessary to get theories going, but without the assumption of a common world, the assumption of faculties
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