title: A Discourse on the Method (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Ren Descartes 
description: <br /><strong>Ian Maclean</strong> is a Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Oxford.<br />
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  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  The Modern Beginner
  Early Days and Youth
  The Soldier
  Descartes’ Three Dreams
  The First and Second Dreams
  The Third Dream
  Descartes Settles in Holland
  Scholasticism
  The Early Days of Science
  What is Science?
  Reduction to Mathematics
  Descartes the Scientist
  Cause
  Discourse on The Method
  Clear in the Mind
  What Is a Clear Idea?
  Logical and Causal Necessity
  Can You Know Wax?
  Rationalists and Empiricists
  Brief History of Scepticism
  The Pyrrhonists
  The Pyrrhonists Arguments
  Sextus and Other Scept