
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Universal Mathematics
He's open to the idea of metaphysics. It's just he's not there yet. I think we have to read this section where he quotes universal mathematics, brings that up. This is just, you know, in the very long paragraph before what you read, he's pointing to mathematics as being the canonical example. Almost anyone with the slightest education can easily tell the difference in any context between what relates to mathematics and what to the other disciplines. When I go on to deal in turn with more profound sciences, as I hope to do soon, my efforts will not be premature. That's why, after the present time, he's made a study of this universal mathematics.
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