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

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The Importance of Practice in Figuring Out Truths

In rule nine he says yet craftsmen who engage in delicate operations and are used to fixing their eyes on a single point acquired through practice the ability to make perfect distinctions between things however delicate and renewed. That way of describing it doesn't make it seem like just anybody could do it that there really might be people who are better at it than others simply better. It's part and parcel of the breaking problems down approach. So his example with before I consider whether it's possible for natural force to pass instantaneously across space you know I'm not going to work on that problem by looking at magnetism where it seems like that might be happening or the speed of light which perhaps it might seem like

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