English

Noun

cogito ‎(usually uncountable, plural cogitos)

1. (philosophy, often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.
   • 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre (author), Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick (translators), The Transcendence of the Ego, Noonday Press, pp. 43-44.

     The Cogito of Descartes and Husserl is an apprehension of fact. . . . Such a Cogito is performed by a consciousness directed upon consciousness, a consciousness which takes consciousness as an object.

   • 1966 Dec., Geoffrey Hartman, "Beyond Formalism," MLN, vol. 81, no. 5, p. 551:

     But are there not as many consciousnesses or cogitos as there are individuals?

   • 1984 Jan., Charles Larmore, "Descartes' Psychologistic Theory of Assent," History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 65:

     An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference.

   • 2000 Spring, Linnell Secomb, "Fractured Community," Hypatia, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 138:

     Benhabib proposes a . . . "recognition that the subjects of reason are finite, embodied and fragile creatures, and not disembodied cogitos or abstract unities of transcendental apperception".

   • 2009 May, Ernest Sosa, "Précis of A Virtue Epistemology," Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition," vol. 144, no. 1, p. 109 n11:

     It may be thought that this leads to an even more radical skepticism than that envisaged by Descartes, since now even the cogito may be questioned.

Italian

Verb

cogito

1. first-person singular present indicative of cogitare

Anagrams

• gotico

Latin

Etymology

From con- +‎ agitō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.ɡi.toː/, [ˈkoː.ɡɪ.toː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.d͡ʒi.to/, [ˈkoː.d͡ʒi.to]

Verb

cōgitō ‎(present infinitive cōgitāre, perfect active cōgitāvī, supine cōgitātum); first conjugation

1. I think
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.

     You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.

2. I consider, ponder
3. I scheme

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References

• cogito in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cogito in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cogito”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
    
• cogito in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Verb

cogito

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of cogitar