I can easily conceive that there is nothing in the world, that there is no heaven, no earth, no minds, no bodies; is it not then likewise true that I do not exist?
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation II

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1641

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