“I think, Therefore I am”

Question

Maybe I’m just small brained but I’ve never understood this phrase

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Answer 1

Descartes wasn’t writing in English and I don’t think this is a great translation. My preferred translation is

> I think, therefore something is thinking.

As others have said, it’s an answer to the question, what do you know 100% infallibly to be the case, that couldn’t possibly be anything except the way it is?

And that’s his answer. Something is thinking. And I know it because I am thinking.

Everything else can be subject to skepticism.