"cogito" meaning in English

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          "text": "But are there not as many consciousnesses or cogitos as there are individuals?",
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          "text": "Benhabib proposes a […] \"recognition that the subjects of reason are finite, embodied and fragile creatures, and not disembodied cogitos or abstract unities of transcendental apperception\"."
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