Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rene Descartes 1635

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 1

The Aim of Studies

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 2

We should only engage with objects that lead to sure knowledge.

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 3

We should seek what we can clearly intuit or deduce with certainty

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 6

Absolute and Relative

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 5

The order of those things to which the mind should be directed

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 9

Look into understandable matters

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Rule 10

How to make the mind sharp

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Rule 13

How to Understand Questions

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Rule 14

Naked shapes to the imagination

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Rule 15

Describe these figures and present them to external senses

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Rule 16

These things are better designated by very brief notes

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 17

Cartesian Method

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rules 19-21

Equations

Rules For The Direction Of The Mind

Rule 18

The 4 Basic Operations