DESCARTES

THE METHOD, MEDITATIONS, AND

SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES

OF

DESCARTES

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXTS

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, HISTORICAL
AND CRITICAL

BY

JOHN VEITCH, LL.D.

PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND RHETORIC IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF GLASGOW

SEVENTH EDITION JAN 80

SODLEIANA

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MDCCCLXXX

265.j. 231.

CONTENTS.

PREFACE,

INTRODUCTION:

I. DESCARTES-HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, .

II. PHILOSOPHY PRECEDING DESCARTES IN THE

FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES,

III. THE COGITO ERGO SUM ITS NATURE

AND

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V. THE GUARANTEE OF THE PRINCIPLE,

VI. THE CRITERION OF TRUTH,.

VII. THE EGO AND THE MATERIAL WORLD,.

VIII. INNATE IDEAS,

IX. MALEBRANCHE,

X. SPINOZA-RELATIONS TO DESCARTES,

XI. DEVELOPMENT OF CARTESIANISM IN THE LINE

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