Finite verb to be omitted. For example, in the Latin sentence "cogito ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") the finite verbs "cogito" and "sum" appear without an explicit subject – the subject is understood to be the first-person personal pronoun, and this information is marked by the way the verbs are inflected. In English, finite verbs lacking subjects are normal in imperative sentences: And also occur in some fragmentary utterances: The relatively poor system of inflectional morphology in English makes the central role that finite verbs play be often not so evident. In other languages, finite verbs are the locus of
Cogito, ergo sum of other minds at this point. This is something that has to be thought through by each of us for ourselves, as we follow the course of the meditations. Second, he does not say that his existence is necessary; he says that "if he thinks", then necessarily he exists (see the instantiation principle). Third, this proposition "I am, I exist" is held true not based on a deduction (as mentioned above) or on empirical induction but on the clarity and self-evidence of the proposition. Descartes does not use this first certainty, the "cogito", as a foundation upon which to build