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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Decartes' Reasoning is Current - posted last year

Descartes thoughts were never muddled. He was terse, concise and offered a simile, here and there, as a matter of explanation. "Why build on an old foundation," he said. "If the building is decrepit and falling apart, why not (like the sciences) sweep them away and learn anew."

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Decartes' Reasoning is Current - posted last year

Tautology, needless repitition, never once enters Destartes thoughts. He is crisp and bright about the message he sends. In other words, he intimates that this is how he sees his situation, the world at large, and opines that this is all rheteric.

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Decartes' Reasoning is Current - posted last year

Rene Descartes believed that if man spent too much time thinking about yesterday, today's importance would be lost.
His reasoning is still compelling and cogent in the world as we now know it.