Descartes's early unpublished work (Regulae ad Directionem Ingenii) outlining rules for the proper direction of the mind toward certain knowledge — the methodological foundation for his later Meditations.
Rules for achieving certain knowledge: begin with simple intuitions; proceed by deduction to complex truths; enumerate carefully to avoid omissions. Establishes the method of analysis that underlies Cartesian philosophy.
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