Question
Antoine-Léonard Thomas expanded a statement made by this thinker to include “dubito,” or “I doubt.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this philosopher who stated “ego sum, ego existo” in Meditations on First Philosophy before finally settling on “cogito, ergo sum.”
ANSWER: René Descartes
[10m] Descartes first used French to write “I think, therefore I am” in this 1637 book which focuses on skepticism.
ANSWER: Discourse on Method [or Discourse on the Method; or Discours de la Méthode]
[10h] This contemporary of Descartes critiqued “cogito, ergo sum” for presupposing an “I.” This philosopher also tried to reconcile Christianity with Epicurean atomism.
ANSWER: Pierre Gassendi [or Pierre Gassend]
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