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Ideas for 'A Discourse on Method', 'reports of career' and 'Personal Identity and Individuation'

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

3603	Methodical thinking is cautious, analytical, systematic, and panoramic [Descartes, by PG]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

164	It is legitimate to play the devil's advocate [Socrates]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 2. Elenchus

1647	In Socratic dialogue you must say what you believe, so unasserted premises are not debated [Vlastos on Socrates]

115	Socrates was pleased if his mistakes were proved wrong [Socrates]

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The method of Socrates shows the student is discovering the truth within himself [Socrates, by Carlisle]

5844	Socrates always proceeded in argument by general agreement at each stage [Socrates, by Xenophon]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 6. Definition by Essence

11389

Socrates sought essences, which are the basis of formal logic [Socrates, by Aristotle]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

3612	Clear and distinct conceptions are true because a perfect God exists [Descartes]