Descartes, René,  1596-1650 <br/><br/>
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences 

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<br/><br/> Translation of Discours de la méthode  Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_the_Method  Release date is 1993-03-01 
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<br/><br/> "Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences" by René Descartes is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published in 1637. Descartes confronts skepticism by doubting everything to discover incontrovertible truth. This approach leads him to his famous conclusion "I think, therefore I am." He presents four precepts for arriving at genuine knowledge, starting from the simplest ideas and building systematically. The work establishes foundations for modern philosophy and natural sciences, introducing reasoning methods that would revolutionize Western thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Science -- Methodology Methodology 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B