Meditation II: On the Human Mind
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation II: Of the Nature of the Human Mind (1641)
René Descartes, writing in Holland, in Latin, at forty-five
Doubts the floor out from under everything, then stands on the one board doubt cannot pull up.
- Catch rate
- 52 / 255
- Base research
- 210
- Stat total
- 300
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Cited for this book
The Meditations rewrite the Discourse’s own argument more carefully. Where the Discourse says "I think, therefore I am" as a compressed slogan, Meditation II insists this is not an inference from a premise — it is caught in the act, each time the thought is thought. Everything else in the six Meditations is built on this one board, laid first and alone.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Am, I Exist | Rationality | Argument | 82 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 34 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |