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struggle4progress

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4. His Discourse on Method is quite good

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 10:20 PM

Jul 8

He actually suggests a radical intellectual humility, in which one temporarily defers to people who probably know better, on almost all issues, while engaging in intense dedicated analysis of a single issue, where one hopes to make progress

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Was Rene Descartes a lying fraud? [View all] Celerity Jul 8 OP

According to the Monty Python gang, "Rene Descartes was a drunken fart who was very rarely sober"... wcmagumba Jul 8 #1

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Almost sounds like Trump read Descartes or at least studied his tactics to "make his readers...gullible". dutch777 Jul 8 #3

His Discourse on Method is quite good struggle4progress Jul 8 #4

Well as DesHorace, little known contemporary of Descartes, once said - werdna Jul 8 #5