Studying is about making your own way.

 Studying is about making your own way.


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"Since what we first find are simple rules which seem to be immanent in our minds rather than acquired by craftsmanship, with these rules we may try to judge philosophical issues directly, and We should not try to solve it, but rather we should use these rules to very earnestly seek out what is more urgently needed in the quest for truth." - Descartes


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What Descartes says is 'what is more urgently required in the quest for truth is the 'method'.


He says he needs some kind of 'preparation' for the quest for truth.


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Spinoza challenges Descartes' theorem.


If a certain method is first required for recognition, what other method is not needed to know the method?



"To grind metal, you need an anvil, and to have an anvil this anvil must be made, and for that, you need another anvil and another tool, which in turn requires another tool, and goes on like this indefinitely." - <<Intellect Improvement Theory>>, Spinoza


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How to know-how, and how to know how again...


If we think that 'methods required in advance for the search for the truth' are necessary, we will have no choice but to reach this infinite regression problem.




Descartes told Yuri that 'anvil' and 'preparation' were absolutely necessary to obtain the truth, so we should focus on obtaining them. Without such preparation, the work of obtaining the truth should not be undertaken immediately.


In response, Spinoza says that there is no advance preparation for obtaining the truth. Preparation will continue to raise the question of that 'preparation for preparation', and like a student sharpening a pencil to study, the perception will be delayed and eventually, like sceptics, will tell us that it is unrecognizable.


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There are no such prerequisites for producing knowledge.


A method is not an antecedent of study, but a result of the study.


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It is wrong to think that I cannot study yet because all I have is pebbles and twigs.


It may be just an excuse to delay studying, but it is not a genuine recognition of studying.


Studying can be done at any time, and it starts only by starting.


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Just as there are no shortcuts to reading and writing, the study is to start with what one has weak and continue to produce and advance knowledge, not to figure out a way to reach it all at once.


There is no other way to the truth, and the way to the truth is the way of truth.


Studying is about making your own way.

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