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“Cogito” is Latin for “I’m spiraling, but make it intellectu…
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“Cogito” is Latin for “I’m spiraling, but make it intellectual.”
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Cogito is Latin for I think, from Descartes's phrase cogito, ergo sum, meaning I think, therefore I am. It is not slang for spiraling.
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