
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Intuition
He calls it intuition, an intentional grasping of a thing directly to apprehend it. He makes this statement that basically there's neither the senses nor the imagination are involved in this type of intuition. These sorts of intuitions look like things that are divorced from either typical sensation or the imagination. We get this idea of our existence, we get mathematical objects.
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