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" Discourse on method and Meditations / "
René Descartes ; translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross.
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947733
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b702103
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Discours de la méthode.English
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Descartes, René,1596-1650.
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Discourse on method and Meditations /\ René Descartes ; translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross.
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Mineola, N.Y. :: Dover Publications,, ©2003.
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Dover philosophical classics
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iii, 121 pages ;; 21 cm.
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0486432521
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: 9780486432526
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Is it possible to be certain of anything? If so, how? Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the father of modern philosophy and founder of rational method in philosophical thought, sought the answers to these questions. In Discourse on Method, he formulated a scientific approach comprising four principles: to accept only what reason recognizes as "clear and distinct"; to analyze complex ideas by dividing them into smaller elements; to reconstruct the ideas; and to make accurate, complete enumerations of the data. In Meditations, he proceeds according to this method, exploring the mind/body distinction, the nature of truth and error, the existence of God, and the essence of material things.
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First philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Methodology.
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Science-- Methodology.
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First philosophy.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Methodology.
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Science-- Methodology.
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194
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B1848.E5H35 2003
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Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson,1862-1937.
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Ross, G. R. T., (George Robert Thomson)
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Descartes, René,1596-1650.
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