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Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Intuitive Apprehension

Seth Godin: The idea of not emitting things shifts between scanning over something where we've already seen all these relationships and trying to be as comprehensive as possible. He says, by sufficient enumeration or induction, we just mean the kind of enumeration which renders the truth of our conclusions more certain than any other kind of proof, simple intuition, except it allows. So I'm not going to run through every individual thing in the universe, right, and say, hey, this corporeal thing is definitely distinct from the rational soul. And then later on in the section. he talks about preventing some things from escaping our notice, ranging over everything that's relevant to a question,. making sure

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