The Search after Truth. Wherein Are Treated the Nature of Man's Mind and the Use He Must Make of It to Avoid Error in the Sciences
2017
Abstract
In this book, Nicolas Malebranche aims to trace all sources of human error and provide a cure for them. He builds on the thinking of St.
Augustine and René Descartes, whose deficiencies he tries to correct. In the first part of his book he deals with mistakes from senses, imagination and intellect.