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 * The opening paragraphs should explain the proposition cleanly to an intelligent beginner without leaving the misimpression that it is widely credited.
 * "Cogito ergo sum" means "I think, therefore I am" in Latin. (Cogito = I think, ergo = therefore, sum = I am) It is offered as a basic truth beyond doubt, though among scholars of philosophy it has been heavily debated and rarely accepted in recent centuries. The tradition of expressing the proposition in Latin began during the Enlightenment period, when the Latin language was a convention of international scholarship.

Rene Descarte, writing originally in French, put the proposition into the center of philosophy.

The individual passages of this article have explanatory power for a broad audience, although in series they make the reader's brain feel like the birdie in a seven-dimensional badminton game.