Quote: Descartes' method: accept only clearly evident truths, divide difficulties into parts, build up knowledge by degrees, and review everything

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That is why I believed it necessary to … [logic, analysis, and algebra], was free from their defects. … The first [rule] was never to accept anything … precipitous judgment and prejudice; and to include nothing … that I would have no occasion to put … many parts as possible, and as is required … the simplest and easiest to know objects, to … an order among those things that do not … that I would be sure of having omitted …   Google-1   Google-2

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