Citations:methodic


 * The doubt recommended and practiced by Descartes...is methodic in the sense that it is practised not for the sake of doubting but as a preliminary stage in the attainment of certainty. &mdash; Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1, p. 85.
 * Des Cartes began the philosophical edifice by supposing himself in a state of doubt with regard to all he knew. It was not a real, but, as it came to be technically called, a methodic doubt, that is to say, assumed for the purpose of serving the method and order according to which philosophical science was to be treated. &mdash; Anthony Rosmini-Serbati, The Origin of Ideas, sec. 1477, emphasis original.