René Descartes Quote

The two operations of our understanding...[are] intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 31), Rules for the Direction of the Mind - Rule IX (p. 14)


The two operations of our understanding...[are] intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The two operations of our understanding...[are] intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The two operations of our understanding...[are] intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

The two operations of our understanding...[are] intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.