Meditation on First Philosophy
| By: | Rene Descartes |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Print ISBN: | 9781984158918.0 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781625580238 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things which are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. The meditations were written as if he were meditating for 6 days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday"