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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences

by René Descartes

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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences is available in the Project Gutenberg source edition credited to René Descartes. Catalog subjects include Science -- Methodology; Methodology. This edition retains the source text, including any introductory material and notes.

First published
Unknown year
Language
English
Translator
John Veitch
Copyright status
Public domain

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B2–C1 · Deep reading

Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences is calibrated from 23,010 sampled words across 7 chapters: sentences average 80.5 words, 95.8% exceed 24 words and 8.6% of words are nine letters or longer.

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Extended sentences averaging 80.5 words, with 81.8% reaching 40 words or more

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8.6% of sampled words contain nine or more letters; names and period vocabulary still vary by chapter

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Table of contents

7 chapters

  1. 01PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR2 min
  2. 02PART I12 min
  3. 03PART II15 min
  4. 04PART III12 min
  5. 05PART IV13 min
  6. 06PART V26 min
  7. 07PART VI26 min
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