What does the quote, "I think. Therefore, I am." mean?

Question

What does the quote, "I think. Therefore, I am." mean?

Answer 1

Im guessing this is more of a question a teacher wants you to answer?

Anyways Imma analyze. I think therefore i am.

When you see it as I being you all you can get out of it is i think so i am.

Am what? It refers to you being alive, being a sort of intellegence.

If I refers to another person it writes out as You think therefore you are. What are you? Someone who thinks must be alive and intelligent, therefore you are alive and an intelligent being.

To make it simple, my answer would be if you can think, then you are alive.

Answer 2

Descartes the philosopher believed that because he had the capacity to think, he must exist in physical form.  

Answer 3

You exist.

It was what René Descartes said (in latin I think) to prove we exist. If you can think it, it exists.

Yeah I learned that last year :D

Answer 4

"I think. Therefore, I am."

Translation: "I think, which makes me a real person. And only a real person can think."