Descartes suggests that we can know anything there is to know by using the “chains of simple and easy reasoning” with which “geometers are accustomed to reach [their] conclusions.” Think back to the...

Descartes suggests that we can know anything there is to know by using the “chains of simple and easy reasoning” with which “geometers are accustomed to reach [their] conclusions.” Think back to the geometry classes you’ve taken. What are the “chains of simple and easy reasoning” Descartes is talking about here? (Although maybe you didn’t think they were so “simple and easy”!) What do you think Descartes might have in mind when he says we could use the reasoning methods of geometry to discover whatever we want to know about “all things”?