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
Mr. Cogito Mr. Cogito appears in the following books of poetry by Herbert: "Mr. Cogito" is a book of poems by Zbigniew Herbert. First published in 1974, the first mention of its possible release dates back to 1969. Four years later, in January 1973, the Catholic weekly "Tygodnik Powszechny" published to great popular acclaim one poem from the planned volume, the iconic "Przesłanie Pana Cogito" ("The Message of Mr. Cogito"). The collection ultimately consisted of 40 poems, which build up the drama around its single main character, Mr. Cogito. Mr. Cogito, who is involved in all the monologues and dialogues in the