Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy: Fourth Edition

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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
How Descartes proves he is nothing but a thinking thing
In the book Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, the cognito proves Descartes’ existence and what he is. Descartes is basically a thing which thinks. To properly comprehend what this implies, he attempts to define thought. By thought, Descartes says that it refers to anything that is marked by consciousness or awareness. In the 2nd meditation, he establishes that I exist is at all times factual whenever it is thought.
He argues that thought exists, and that thought alone cannot be detached from him. He points out that I am, and I exist, and according to him, this is sure. It is sure for as long as he is thinking. Descartes points out that in the event that he were to stop all thinking, then he would surely stop existing. He does not admit anything which is not essentially factual. Hence, he is exactly nothing but a thing that thinks; that is to say an understanding, or grounds, or brainpower or mental power – words of whose connotations he was earlier unaware. Nevertheless, he is a true thing and he is beyond doubt existing. The kind of thing, as he says, a thinking thing (Descartes & Donald 31).
Descartes points out that he knows about his existence. According to him, this I whom he knows is not dependent on things whose reality he does not yet have knowledge. He continues responding to the question what then am I and asserts that he is a thinking thing. This connotes a thing which does the following: can sense, can imagine, can affirm, can...