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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:16:10 -0500
To: Iain Templeton <iain@research.canon.com.au>
From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Subject: Re: Descartes
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At 19:54 29-05-2000 -0500, i wrote:
>At 09:22 30-05-2000 +1000, Iain Templeton wrote:
>>Well, what would "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
>>be?
>
>"Cogito me cogitare ergo cogito me esse." Or, if you want to go for fancy
>style, "Cogito me cogitare ergo me esse cogito," though many people might
>have harder time to translate that one to their respective language.

Perhaps I should add that both of the above are very literal translations.
However I cannot imagine any Latin orator putting it that way. If you did
not mind losing the "ergo" (and hence the pun, unfortunately), a good
idiomatic way of expressing the same idea would be "Cogens me esse cogito."

That would literally translate "Thinking, I think that I am," or a little
more free translation, "The thinker that I am, I think that I am."

You loose the obvious connection to Descartes, but you certainly get better
Latin. Your choice. :)

Cheers,
Adam


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