Basically this is Descartes’s Discourse on the Method (2) The second ·was· to divide each of the difficulties I examined into as many parts as possible and as

Basically this is Descartes’s Discourse on the Method (2) The second ·was· to divide each of the difficulties I examined into as many parts as possible and as might be required in order to resolve them better. (3) The third ·was· to direct my thoughts in an orderly manner, by •starting with the simplest and most easily known objects in order to move up gradually to knowledge of the most complex, and •by stipulating some order even among objects that have no natural order of precedence. (4) And the last ·was· to make all my enumerations so complete, and my reviews so comprehensive, that I could be sure that I hadn’t overlooked anything. http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/descartes1637.pdf http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/descartes1637.pd...