Status Updates From Discourse on Method and Rel...

"By wandering about in the empty space of many causes, they hope to find by chance something novel."

girl that's me rn wtf

"... often those who are educated are used to being so clever that they find a way if blinding themselves even about the things that are self-evident and are never unknown to the uneducated."

1) the way that this is the most coherent thing he's said in a while
2) real
3) kinda wish this book was just him spilling tea tbh...

shoutout to the footnote here cuz lord knows i am not following his rambly ass atp.. forgot what the first qn even was lol

feeling very much the "sluggishness of one's intelligence" rn the way i am completely not comprehending this rule

"I confess that I was born with an intelligence such that my greatest pleasure in studying has always been... in discovering the same reasoning [of others] by my own efforts."

oh descartes u would hate ai 💔

"...those who never distribute their thought between many objects at the same time, but always focus it completely on thinking about certain very simple and easy things, become insightful."

descartes wouldve loved deep work pt 2

ohh descartes u would have loved cal newport's 'deep work'...

"[Completing deductions through well-enumerated thought] sometimes involves such a long chain of inferences that, when we arrive at the conclusion, we do not easily recall the whole journey that led us there."

me picking up this book again after a few months oops

".. for the art that they call by the barbaric name of 'algebra'..."

😭😭😭 ????? unprovoked ?????

"On the other hand, wherever they are lucky enough to discover something certain and evident, they never reveal it unless it is wrapped up in various obscurities, for fear that the simplicity of their argument would diminish the importance of the discovery or because they begrudge us the bare truth."

girl who hurt u lol 😭

"Therefore if someone wishes seriously to investigate the truth about things, they should not choose some particular science, because all the sciences are interconnected and dependent on each other."

(kenan thompson voice) that's really nice...!

girl they had a whole 30+ yrs to lose the manuscript LOL...

"This rule [of motion]... depends only on the fact that God conserves each thing by a continuous action, and therefore he does not conserve it as it may have been some time previously, but precisely as it is at the very instant that he conserves it."

he is... really losing me here lolll

"...the motion I suppose follows the same laws of nature... [including] those [the learned] call 'qualitates reales' (their real qualities) in which, I frankly confess, I cannot find any more reality in the others."

ok lowk why is he so funny in his asides tho lmao

my eyes r like fully glazing over at all of this elements mumbo jumbo LOL... also again. why do we hate vacuums so much

what did vacuums ever do to natural philosophers...

ill be honest i dont understand a lick of this section about hard/soft bodies LOL

"I am sufficiently convinced, I claim, by my arguments about this point, but this is not the appropriate occasion to tell you them."

lowkey "it came to be in a dream" type shit 😭

my guy w the double "i.e." in a single sentence...