Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Sufficient Enumeration of Types of Body
Seth Godin: How do you establish when Seth said exercise, a light went on? I was thinking about something like this rule that you actually do in order to keep physically exercising. This is what he means by the sufficiency of the enumeration. You don't have to count everything all the time. But it has to be sufficient. And the same thing, if you're doing geometrical proofs, right, you can basically do a schematization. So I think that's what this idea of schematization might be about when we're taking account of everything.
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