
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Rule 12: We must make use of all the aids which intellect imagination sense perception and memory afford us in order firstly to intuit simple propositions distinctly secondly to combine correctly the matters under investigation with what we already know so that they too may be known. Thirdly to find out what things should be compared with each other so that we may make the most thorough use of all of our human powers this is really summarizing the whole book up to this place. Rule 13: Since shape is involved in every sensible object we can kind of use Occam's razor and reduce other it's a primary qualities secondary qualities distinction where something like color is extended and therefore has shape.
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