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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
This is the fourth law of Descartes' method.
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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
This is the third law of Descartes' method. It corresponds to the fact that a valid argument has simpler statements that are connected together correctly to reach a conclusion.
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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
A precept is a law. A multiplicity is a manifold. Descartes' thinks that in logic, as in governance of a state, it is better to have few laws rather than many. So he has only four laws in his method. See p. 23.
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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
This is the first law of his method. It corresponds to the fact that a sound argument must have true premisses.
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Which is NOT a law of Descartes' method:
{ 1 } - Omitting nothing.
{ 2 } - Carrying reflections in order of simple to complex.
{ 3 } - Having a multiplicity of precepts.
{ 4 } - Accepting nothing as true not recognized to be so.
{ 5 } - Dividing difficulties into as many parts as possible and requisite.
This is the second law of Descartes' method. It corresponds to the fact that a sound argument is a reasoning process: it has parts, true statements, which must be connected together correctly to reach a conclusion.
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