Descartes: A Very Short Introduction
Published:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780191776632
Print ISBN:
9780192854094
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4 (page 13)p. 13‘Absolutes’, Simple Natures, and Problems
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Sorell, Tom, '‘Absolutes’, Simple Natures, and Problems', Descartes: A Very Short Introduction, Very Short Introductions (Oxford , 2000; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Sept. 2013), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192854094.003.0004, accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
‘Absolutes, Simple Natures and Problems’ deals mainly with the Regulae, an incomplete treatise which anticipated some of the innovations of the Geometry, and which adapted, in outline, some of the techniques of the revamped algebra and geometry to solve problems in the other sciences. Descartes had intended to show in the last twelve rules of the Regulae how any problem could be translated into a question where the route from known to unknown was as clear as in mathematics. Though he does not seem to have composed the last dozen rules, in the twenty-one he did assemble, he arrived at a highly distinctive theory of enquiry in general.
Keywords:
cause, certainty, doubt, geometry, mathematics, matter, mind, music, natural, philosophy, rules
Subject
17th - 18th Century Philosophy
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Very Short Introductions
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