Dublin Feb. 19. 1679/80.
The Contents.
| Meditation 1. Of Things Doubtful. | [Pag. 1.] |
| Meditat. 2. Of the Nature of Mans Mind, and that ’tis easier Proved to Be then our Body. | [p. 11.] |
| Meditat. 3. Of God, and that there Is a God. | [p. 27.] |
| Meditat. 4. Of Truth and Falshood. | [p. 55.] |
| Meditat. 5. Of the Essence of Things Material, and herein again of God, and that He does Exist. | [p. 70.] |
| Meditat. 6. Of Corporeal Beings and their Existence, as also of the Real Difference between Mind and Body. | [p. 83.] |
| Objections and Answers. | [p. 155.] |
ERRATA.
Pag. 1. line 8. dele off. p. 3. l. 21. there wants the sign of Interrogation. p. 8. l. 10. r. Premeditated. ib. l. 14. r. falshoods. p. 18. l. 15. r. that it may. p. 20. l. 11. r. suffers. In the two or three first chapters there are Astericks wanting. p. 33. l. 10. dele I. p. 39. l. 25. r. formally. p. 49. l. 14 r. Duration and Continuance. p. 54. l. 2 for the Point put a Comma. p. 61. l. ult. r. I enquire. p. 91. r. in the margin doubted. p. 124. l. 6. r. have no affinity.
Transcriber’s Note: These errata have been corrected, along with some obvious typos. The spelling in this book is not only of its time, but also wildly variable, and has been left well alone.
THE
Metaphysical Meditations
OF
Renatus Des-Cartes, &c.
Meditat. I.
Of Things Doubtful.
Some years past I perceived how many Falsities I admitted as Truths in my Younger years, and how Dubious those things were which I raised from thence; and therefore I thought it requisite (if I had a designe to establish any thing that should prove firme and permanent in sciences) that once in my life I should clearly cast aside all my former opinions, and begin a new from some First principles. But this seemed a great Task, and I still expected that maturity of years, then which none could be more apt to receive Learning; upon which Account I waited so long, that at last I should deservedly be blamed had I spent that time in Deliberation which remain’d only for Action.