About Antoine Léonard Thomas
Lived 1732 – 1785 (aged 52). Antoine Léonard Thomas was a French poet, literary critic, writer and philosopher.
Antoine Léonard Thomas (1 October 1732 – 17 September 1785) was a French poet and literary critic, best known in his time for his great eloquence, especially for éloges in praise of past luminaries. It was in recognition of this that he was elected to Académie Française.
In an award-winning 1765 essay in praise of René Descartes, he penned a fuller form of the cogito in French as "." With rearrangement and compaction, the passage translates to "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am," or in Latin, "dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum."
He was born in Clermont-Ferrand and died aged 52 in Oullins.
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Who was Antoine Léonard Thomas?
French poet (1732-1785)
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Antoine Léonard Thomas was born on 1 October 1732 in Clermont-Ferrand.
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Antoine Léonard Thomas died on 17 September 1785 in Oullins.
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Antoine Léonard Thomas was a poet, literary critic, writer and philosopher.
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Antoine Léonard Thomas was French.
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