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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Intuition

Daycard gives us a distinction between deduction as it happens as a mental operation and then the results of induction. He also talks about enumeration which here he talks about as inference from many separate data all at once. The whole chain is a deduction each individual link you can grasp by intuition but to get the whole thing into your head that's the process of enumeration.

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