The authors focused on such aspects of prominent scientist R. Descartes’ work as an attempt to reveal the connection between the scientific thinking development and the general philosophical principles, to solve the problem of the subject and objective reality’s relationship, to make the subjectobject view of cognitive activity. The authors give the characteristic of intellectual intuition and deduction, such means of thinking through which it is possible to achieve complete reliability of knowledge, if only to follow the true method.

Keywords: subject as thinking thing; mind; radical doubt; fact of thinking; “I think” as basis; undeniable truth; reliable knowledge basis; idea as subject’s cognitive abilities form and as object of thought; rationalistic method.

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