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by ren descartes

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...myself, and ascertain the true method by which to arrive at the knowledge ofwhatever lay within the compass of my powers. Among the branches of philosophy, I had, at an earlier period, given someattention to logic, and among those of the mathematics to geometricalanalysis and algebra, -- three arts or sciences which ought, as Iconceived, to contribute something to my design. But, on examination, Ifound that, as for logic, its syllogisms and the majority of its otherprecepts are of avail- rather in the communication of what we alreadyknow, or even as the art of Lully, in speaking without judgment of thingsof which we are ignorant, than in the investigation of the unknown; andalthough this science contains indeed a number of correct and veryexcellent precepts, there are, nevertheless, so many others, and theseeither injurious or superfluous, mingled with the former, that it isalmost quite as difficult to effect a severance of the true from the falseas it is to extract a Diana or a...