RHETOR 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Well-Order, Intuit, Baconian Method
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The human understanding: the senses are dull, incompetent, and deceptive. People are prone to believing abstractions are real, and real things are abstractions. Don"t believe that the world is as you would prefer to have it. Look at the concrete world rather than creating an abstract one. This is about radical knowledge, acquired through skepticism. Disputed, but a slow accumulation of knowledge, moving generally from particulars to greater generalities, rather than from general principles to what must be the case in a given particular. Identified with a desire to master nature and positivism . Descartes refers to descartes" unpublished works, which contain theories of the. A discourse on method material world that he has left unsaid due to extraordinary disagreement with the current mode of thought. Descartes says that even fictional worlds can be observed, because they are created. Peter dear points out that deductive logic and its mathematical analogues were the inferences that mattered to descartes and newton.
