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George Walsh on The Enlightenment

Policy@McCombs

CHAPTER

The Importance of Intuition

A new group of thinkers appeared, irrational. These men put forth a laborer-deductivist which claimed to have solved all problems at least in principle. They gradually took off from some sense observations and made almost immediate appeal to clear and distinct ideas. Their ambition far succeeded their success but they failed miserably to substantiate their claim. We must show why the rational is failed - we need only look for a few minutes at the methods and results of their current philosophy.

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