What was Vico's stance on Cartesian analysis?
He found it impractical to real life
He fully supported it
He modified its concepts
He completely understood it
Answer
Vico found Cartesian analysis impractical to real life. He believed that Descartes' method of analyzing concepts into their simplest parts was too abstract and removed from the real world. Instead, Vico argued that a more practical approach was to study the whole of a thing, and then to analyze its parts in relation to the whole.
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