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

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The Secret of Metaphysical Simpleness

I don't think his simple nature is an atomic fact. Their characteristic of being simple has to do with their character as being individual holes themselves that can be intuited. So if you're going to understand something complicated, you should first understand the simple things and then build up to that. I'm pretty sure that later in this text he distinguishes between metaphysical simplicity and epistemic simplicity. However, they do seem kind of squished together because it does seem like these whole rules are for the mind, therefore, they'reEpistemic rules.

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