Will, Method, Meditation

Any plan of action, just like any itinerary, begins with one's current circumstances, and provides a structure to Will, i. e. to the Motility involved in the action. Now, a method is just a generalized plan of action, and an analysis of a method could be called a 'discourse' on it. In contrast, to 'meditate' connotes to 'calmly reflect', which can thus be sharply distinguished from 'cogito', derived from 'agito', i. e. from Descartes' original characterization of his method. In other words, Descartes' project can be divided into two phases--the first, in which he analyzes the structures of action, and the second, in which he calmly reflects on those structures. Subsequently, the rubric 'Cartesian' becomes attached to those structures insofar as they are objects of meditation, not insofar as they are structures of Volition.