Rules for the Direction of the Mind
René Descartes
Descartes' early, unfinished handbook on method, with rules for reasoning clearly in any science and mathematics as the model. Translated by Elizabeth Haldane and G. R. T. Ross in 1911.
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Objections and RepliesHobbes, Gassendi, Arnauld and other critics attack the Meditations, and Descartes answers each of them point by point. All seven sets of objections and replies, in the 1912 Haldane and Ross translation.
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