Re: Latin Phrases on exit

[Arthur A. Gleckler]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 11:51 AM Clive Tovero <clive.tovero@aol.com> wrote:

"Cogito, ergo sum, cogito."  (For fun, someone with access to ChatGPT
might ask it to translate this.)

Here is ChatGPT's reply:

The phrase "Cogito, ergo sum, cogito" is originally in Latin and is famously attributed to the French philosopher René Descartes. It can be translated to English as "I think, therefore I am, I think." The phrase is often used to illustrate Descartes' idea of radical skepticism and his argument for the existence of the self or the "I" as a necessary condition for thinking.

But, despite the confidence of ChatGPT's answer, it isn't right.  Descartes didn't include the second "cogito."  As someone quipped, this is "mansplaining as a service."