Download or read book Cogitations written by Jerrold J. Katz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the problem with Descartes's Cogito ergo sum --a famous but controversial philosophical dictum--lies in a deficiency in the theory of language and logic that Cartesian scholars have brought to the study of the Cogito, Katz here proposes that the Cogito be understood as an example of "analytic entailment," a thesis according to which a statement can be a formally valid inference without depending on a law of logic.