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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 23,320 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gómez Pereira is the 1,048th most popular philosopher (down from 976th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Spanish Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,048 out of 1,081Before him are Phan Thanh Giản, Ivan Kireyevsky, Sopater of Apamea, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Nana Asmaʼu, and Azmi Bishara. After him are Isidore of Alexandria, Richard Posner, Sandra Harding, Martin Chemnitz, Bernard Lonergan, and Seyla Benhabib.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1500, Gómez Pereira ranks 48Before him are Georg Pencz, Pedro Reinel, Caupolicán, Ligier Richier, Lope de Rueda, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón. After him are Nicholas Ridley and Abd al-Samad. Among people deceased in 1567, Gómez Pereira ranks 12Before him are Michael Stifel, Marin Držić, Girolamo Priuli, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and Ligier Richier.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,315 out of 2,932Before him are Eduardo Pondal (1835), Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (1952), José Berraondo (1878), Amparo Rivelles (1925), José Araquistáin (1937), and Belén Rueda (1965). After him are Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (1951), Josep Maria Mauri (1941), Ramón Encinas (1893), Antonia San Juan (1961), Iago Aspas (1987), and Mariano García Remón (1950).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 32Before him are Lubna of Córdoba (922), Bahya ibn Paquda (1050), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Fernando Savater (1947), Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (1905), and Dominicus Gundissalinus (1115). After him are Julián Marías (1914).