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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Intuition

"If you can fit the whole chain of reasoning in your head at the same time, then you've grasped it via a single intuition," he says. "You could reduce the rule of inference to an axiom, which we learned to do ... Mark at University of Texas forced us to do that type of thing"

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