Meditationes de prima philosophia

To the Reader

...arguments by which I have been persuaded, I might also be able to persuade others. Later, however, I will respond to the objections of several men distinguished for their intelligence and learning, to whom these Meditations original: "Meditationes" were sent for examination before they were published original: "typis mandarentur"; literally, "committed to the types," referring to the printing process. Indeed, the objections they raised were so numerous and varied that I dare to hope it will be difficult for anything of any significance to occur to other readers that these men have not already addressed. Therefore, I earnestly request—again and again—that readers do not pass judgment on the Meditations until they have seen fit to read through all of those objections and my solutions original: "solutiones"; these are the formal "Replies" Descartes wrote to the "Objections" gathered from other philosophers and theologians to them.