PHILOSOPHER

Gómez Pereira

1500 - 1567

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Gómez Pereira (1500–1567) was a Spanish philosopher, doctor, and natural humanist from Medina del Campo. Pereira worked hard to dispel medieval concepts of medicine and proposed the application of empirical methods; as for his philosophy, it is of the standard direction and his reasonings are a clear precedent of René Descartes. He was the first to propose the famous "Cogito ergo sum", in 1554, commonly attributed to Descartes. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gómez Pereira has received more than 25,145 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gómez Pereira is the 1,110th most popular philosopher (down from 1,048th in 2019), the 1,434th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,312th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Spanish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,110 out of 1,267. Before him are Geydar Dzhemal, Michael Hardt, Friedrich Eduard Beneke, Rosi Braidotti, Sandra Harding, and Clémence Royer. After him are Mario Perniola, Julián Marías, Boris Parygin, Amos Bronson Alcott, Kaibara Ekken, and Ivan Merz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Gómez Pereira ranks 57. Before him are Lope de Rueda, Leonardo III Tocco, Joachim Camerarius, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón, García López de Cárdenas, and Nicholas Ridley. After him is Abd al-Samad. Among people deceased in 1567, Gómez Pereira ranks 13. Before him are Marin Držić, Girolamo Priuli, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Juan Bautista de Toledo, Ligier Richier, and Estácio de Sá.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,434 out of 3,355. Before him are Guillermo Amor (1967), Ramón de la Fuente Leal (1907), Manuel González García (1877), Imanol Alguacil (1971), Andrés Palop (1973), and Ana Botín (1960). After him are Esperanza Aguirre (1952), Joseíto (1926), Pedro Solbes (1942), Jaime Lazcano (1909), Jerónimo Zurita y Castro (1512), and Paco Ignacio Taibo II (1949).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 34. Before him are Lubna of Córdoba (922), Dominicus Gundissalinus (1115), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (1905), Fernando Savater (1947), and Jaime Balmes (1810). After him are Julián Marías (1914).

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